Rory has been giving updates on the MarketPlace in most the videos and presentations. Goal was to build it and test it out to see if it's a viable model which it certainly seems to be now. He said in the latest video I posted it will be launched this year. He never gave a specific date as to when it would be launched so people don't get the wrong expectations.

Verbmail was released June 11th.

Complaining about how Microsoft didn't approve it right away started June 12th.

Sheer panic that something major was wrong started around June 15th.

The app was approved and pushed to the app store about an hour ago and searchable there.

I tested it just now and it worked great. Production version is much faster than the staging version I was using. It's likely this is running off of Microsoft Azure now instead of Amazon.