I can imagine that more than a few champagne corks are being popped right now at Redmond as word has come that after a lot of hard work Windows Phone 7 has been released to manufacturers. This means that handset makers can now start working on getting the final versions of their mobile handsets ready for launch day.
As Terry Myerson writes over on The Windows Blog
Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7! While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete.
Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes. We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready.
No kidding we’re ready. We’re ready for what has to be one of Microsoft’s most anticipated releases in a very long time. Even more so than Windows 7 Microsoft has a lot riding on this and considering they apparently readied some $400 million alone for advertising Microsoft realizes just how important the success of Windows Phone 7 is.
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