Should we say that Windows Phone 7 is a big failure?

Everywhere we look around the web we will find that Microsoft sold merely 40,000 Windows Phone 7 devices on launch day Monday. And this compared to Apple iPhone is a pittance, which sells millions of devices on their launch day.

One problem with this information is that it comes from one report from TheStreet that quotes an unnamed “market research source”. As we know all those research firms like to come up with stories about big firms like Microsoft, because in this way they will be known to the public.

This same author is known to get many big stories wrong. One example would be the one when somebody said that Palm Pre would never land at Verizon and this in fact happened. Sensational stories from unknown sources always attracted this author, which almost all turn out to be wrong.

Despite the fact that they sold only 40.000 devices (if that's true) they are already launching an update on January 2011 and if we look at the fact that more and more smartphones will support Windows Mobile 7, we should think again before making any assumptions.  Dell for example is launching a few devices which will support Windows Mobile 7, and HTC will also launch WM7 devices, and this should make us think, is WM7 a failure? Or they are just paying Dell, HTC, Samsung, etc lots of money to promote their OS.

Google’s Android also got off to a lacklustre start, but now as we can see, they are doing a pretty god job, because they are now on top of the charts in the US and they have strong ambitions to take down Symbian (we will see about MeeGo).

It will be hard for Microsoft; the platform is good but not that mature as iOS, Android, Blackberry or even webOS, but this has to be reviewed once the update will come out in January.

My personal opinion is that Microsoft has to do more work to finish their OS, I like the concept, all the ideas but they still have to work on their OS, they should think about small stuff like wireless indicator and so on.