T-Mobile Gives Microsoft the Axe

“In what begins to look like what Lady Bracknell would call carelessness, Microsoft mislaid another smartphone customer today. T-Mobile International, which along with AT&T was one of Microsoft’s two best shots at winning volume for its phone platform, confessed today that it wouldn’t be launching its version this summer after all.

A spokesman present “on the sidelines” of a Deutsche Telekom news conference in Bonn told Reuters that the company would not be pursuing the project “for the time being.” It’s not entirely clear why at the moment, although Reuters suggests technical problems resulting in high failure rates may have cooled T-Mobile’s enthusiasm. ”

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