“I’m gonna ask stone star Kostas… to come on. And Kostas has brought with him Windows Phone 7, that you launch this October.” So sayeth Microsoft VP for Marketing Mich Mathews in introducing GM of Live Labs’ Kostas Mallios, who was during a Cannes Lions promotion discussion to show off the promotion capabilities of the upcoming smartphone platform. Of march, last you listened, a central association line upon WP7’s release was “legal holiday 2010,” so this would really slight the launch window utterly a bit, as well as corroborates progressing Telstra roadmap leaks. Not an official statement, though Mathews would really be someone in a know here. Don’t design a folks in Redmond to go forward as well as endorse — they work on their own schedule, thank you really much — but should someone ‘fess up, can we additionally speak about which $150 Kinect price? Video after a mangle.

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