Microsoft hits a Windows phone milestone

OVER AT the Windows Phone blog Microsoft is crowing about a significant event in its handset software's career.

Terry Myserson, co-VP for Windows Phone engineering, said that his team has hit a 'very significant milestone', and is ready to out its technical preview.

He added that the release is a work in progress, but is happy to sign off that Windows Phone 7 is ready for the 'hands-on everyday use of a broad set of consumers around the world'. He says consumers, but it's a tech preview, so really we are probably just talking about developers.

Wordplay aside, any feedback developers give will be collated, ignored, thrown in a bin, got out, reconsidered, and then poo-poo'd and finally approved, possibly, in advance of the next release, he added. Though in less words.

It's not only the general public that gets to iron out the bugs, though. The software has been tested in-house by 1,000 Microsoftees, who surely know what they are doing. We'll spare a thought for them though, as apparently they have had to use Windows Phone 7 devices as their only phones for the past few months.

Developers will start receiving handsets from firms including Asus, LG and Samsung, pre-loaded with the software, shortly. µ