According to Microsoft’s COO, Kevin Turner, Windows Phone 7 will first launch across Europe before reaching the American shelves. WP7 phones would be likely — as Turner says — available in Europe in the October timeframe and the USA would follow in the November timeframe.
This is a remarkable new strategy, Microsoft used to launch its products in USA first, before trying on the European market. As with the Zune, they didn’t want to release it over here, before it scored some goals in the USA. Sadly for Zune-enthusiasts like me, Zune wasn’t a box-office over there.
[...] This is of course doesn’t quite inconsistent with what Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner said before. Of course plans could always have changed or Turner might have made a mistake. However [...]