Microsoft’s held the line since its February announce that Windows Phone 7 is going to be ready in time for the holidays this year — and from what we’ve seen recently, we believe it — so today they’re announcing another small step inside the process by finalizing the dev tools that first bowed at MIX in March. Specifically, the gold build can be hitting streets on September 16, a bit of under a month from today, while the Marketplace will start accepting apps sometime in early October. Now, so we can throw slightly conjecture at this and make a couple of assumptions along the way in which, it’s worthwhile to reasonably argue that Microsoft wants a healthy catalog of apps available for purchase on launch day one and that it’ll probably take them no less than every week or two to approve those first titles — which means if everything goes perfectly, we could theoretically see retail hardware on shelves by the tip of October. Again, that’s purely conjecture on our part, nonetheless it’s pretty juicy to think that we may be fidgeting with a Cetus in around two months’ time, isn’t it?
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