Right after weeks of steering clear of answering questions about how countless Windows Phone 7 gadgets have already been marketed considering that their start in late October, Microsoft execs have decided to release figures.On December 21,
Cheap Office 2007, in an article on its Internet web-site for the press, Microsoft officials stated that its phone partners have sold “over 1.5 million phones in the first six weeks” they were available.Update: This number represents sales of Windows Telephone seven phones from telephone makers to carriers. It is not the variety of phones sold to customers by the carriers.Windows Telephone 7 units went on sale in Europe on October 21 and in the U.S. on November 8. In the U.S.,
Office 2007 Enterprise, only two carriers currently offer the GSM-only phones: AT&T and T-Mobile. In early 2011, Verizon and Sprint are expected to begin selling CDMA Windows Telephone 7 units.Sales might have been higher, had telephone makers and carriers actually provided sufficient stock. Or if telephone makers didn;t have to delay shipping models with varied technical glitches. But in any case,
Microsoft Office 2010, that 1.5 million figure is fairly a bit higher than diverse (informed and uninformed) estimates I;ve seen.Microsoft is expected to deliver an update to the Windows Phone 7 operating system in early 2011 that will add support for copy and paste,
Windows 7 64bit, along with other new functionality. My sources have indicated that a major operating system update, codenamed “Mango,” is coming in the third quarter of 2011 and will include support for Silverlight and HTML 5.Microsoft execs are not commenting on the company;s future roadmap for that Windows Phone OS. When I asked, a spokesperson provided the following official statement:“Microsoft will push Windows Phone seven software updates to end users and all Windows Phone seven units will be eligible for updates. As Microsoft has stated previously,
Microsoft Office Standard, they are committed to delivering regular updates to the Windows Phone experience with our partners. We have no further information to share on future updates.”