Scott Moritz
11/09/10 - 11:33 AM EST
As big-splash debuts go, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 launch at AT&T
and T-Mobile didn't exactly make waves Monday.
Even with a glitzy media intro last month hosted by champion inside-
seller and company chief Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, which spent a
reported $100 million on the phone's advertising campaign, sold a mere
40,000 Windows 7 phones Monday, according to a market research source
who tracks phone sales.
By the way, that anemic sales number does not include the 89,000
Microsoft employees that will be given free Windows 7 phones:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10916575/1/microsoft-sells-40k-windows-7-phones.html