UPDATED - Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing ( R T M ) and NOW to the World !!

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October, 11th

 

Windows Phone 7 will hit the Stores in Europe and Asia on October, 21th and in the US on November, 8th.

 

We have just seen the presentation, LIVE, held by Steve Ballmer and John Belfiore.

 

We have seen the People, Games, Office, I mean, ALL the Hubs we can expect on the real devices live on Stage.

 

These are really, really good news.

 

These are the devices, thus far, as they will arrive :

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These models can vary from region to region.

 

Stay tunned for more news on this !

 

Kind regards,

 

João Ribeiro

 

 

-- Original Post --

A post by Terry Myerson

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.

I last posted on this blog when we reached the Technical Preview milestone, and we’ve received some great feedback since then which we’ve been able to respond to and improve the smart design throughout the OS. For example, folks loved the Facebook integration in the People Hub, but they also wanted ways to filter their contacts so only the Facebook friends they really know will show up in their contact list  – we’ve added support for that.  We’ve also made it easy to “like” a post right from the People Hub, or quickly post a message to someone’s Facebook wall directly.

This has been one of the most incredible product development efforts I’ve ever been a part of. Today’s milestone is exciting not just because of what we’ll deliver to customers later this year, but how it sets us up for success over the long term in the mobile space… we’re really just getting started.

We reached today’s milestone because of the tremendous efforts of the entire team including our partners, early adopters, and independent software developers providing feedback.  I want to send a huge THANK YOU to this extended team– we couldn’t have done it without you!

Terry