We're learning this afternoon that Microsoft's Kin line, for all practical purposes,
Office 2010 Home And Student, is riding off in to the sunset just a couple limited weeks following its release. Sources close to Microsoft tell us that Andy Lees has rolled Kin to the Windows Mobile phone 7 crew and has canceled the present product's kick off later on this 12 months in Europe on news that revenue weren't as strong as expected. Speaking of income, Verizon's already-launched Kin One particular and Kin Two are soldiering on for that time being, but for how prolonged is anyone's guess. Here is Microsoft's official declaration: Interestingly,
Office 2010 Professional Plus Key, CNET is reporting that Roz Ho -- the exec who masterminded Kin below the codename "Pink" subsequent Microsoft's acquisition of Danger -- will "oversee" her team's move over to Windows Phone 7 prior to taking a to-be-determined role elsewhere in the company. For what it is worth, we failed to feel a lot from the Kin when we reviewed it -- for being fair,
Windows 7 64 Bit, we're not the product's target demographic, nonetheless it definitely appears as if the phones got no love in the tweens, teenagers, and twentysomethings it sought to win over, both. It can be hard to say how the Kin's untimely (or is it timely?) death ties into Robbie Bach and J Allard's departure,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, but since Lees has his fingers much more carefully wrapped about this task than he had previously, it stands to purpose that there's a link there. In the end, just how poor do sales need to be to kill a challenge mere weeks into its retail kick off? And for NVIDIA, what does it suggest that they have but to release even just one blockbuster,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, wildly productive Tegra system?
Update: What killed the Kin?
Office 2010 Professional Plus Key Microsoft Kin is
Linear Mode
