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Windows Phone 7 devices free at Microsoft's own stores

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Will be free on certain contracts not completely free offline. In the UK you can get the Iphone 4 free if you want to pay £75 a month for 24 months.

Windows phone may not be great but I doubt Microsoft will just throw away the money they have invested.
 

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It's "Black Friday" weekend in the US, essentially the start of the Christmas shopping season - and that's exactly what this sale is for. It's too early to read this as a sign of failure for WP7.
 
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Weird. I actually had an odd dream where I had just bought a laborghini as well as this cool new phone that had sweet 3-d screen/interface. I was thinking it was a new microsoft phone from the swooshing startup screen(like the new xbox 360 update), but right at the end, it had an apple logo, even though it kind of looked like a blackberry. I wonder what that dream meant??

I don't think think microsoft is in the right market with their phones.
 
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Windows Phone 7 developers fear platform flop
AppleInsider | Windows Phone 7 developers fear platform flop
Despite a reportedly healthy level of interest from developers, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 debut appears to have flopped with consumers, leaving developers cautious about investing in the platform.
If your developers fear the platform they are developing for will flop, then geee that's not good at all. Bad for MS I know but their W7 mobiles are really not getting a good word said about them anywhere. I think if the W7 mobile platform truly flops heads will roll. Sure even Vista and the kin failing could not get change to occur at MS. But if W7 mobile fails then I'm sure that will force their hand to make changes.

And if not then nothing ever will.
 

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