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I treatment much less about Microsoft executives; continued refusal to go public with shipment amount for Windows Telephone 7 than I do in regards to the firm;s (hopefully reversible) choice stopping partners from porting the phone operating program to slates and tablets.In the “Dive Into Mobile” conference this week, Microsoft corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone System Management Joe Belfiore refused multiple times to provide an update on Windows Phone seven sales. If I were Belfiore, I wouldn;t be sharing numbers, either, since — at least in my opinion, though not according to Microsoft;s party line — Windows Telephone seven is basically in soft-launch mode.Inside U.S., there are very few models of phones available on only two carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile). The first CDMA Windows Telephone 7 models from Verizon and Sprint are sounding like early 2011 deliverables. Lack of stock and delays of models like the Dell Venue Pro (which Dell resolved a couple weeks ago) have undoubtedly hurt WP7 sales,Office 2010 Home And Student, as well.However, I still find myself as incredulous as Engadget;s Editor Joshua Topolsky, who asked Belfiore during his on-stage Q&A about Microsoft;s choice to bar partners from shipping Windows Phone OS on tablets and slates.“You can’t possibly be this blind that Windows 7 isn’t going to work on tablets with the way you want it. Is that really the strategy?” asked Topolsky.Belfiore reportedly said that while the “announced” strategy is that Windows seven and its successors will be the operating program that Microsoft offers its partners for licensing for tablets and slates, “the corporation will evaluate that going forward.”Hopefully the “evaluation” period on that choice is sooner rather than later. An HTML 5-compliant Internet Explorer 9 running on Oak Trail processor-based Windows 7 slates will make Windows seven slates more appealing than are the current generation hitting the market now. But a Windows Phone OS update that provided greater HTML 5/Silverlight/Flash support would be even more so, to my mind. Plus, offering the Windows Telephone OS on slates would probably boost Microsoft;s telephone OS developer numbers further,Office Professional 2010 Key, and I;d argue,Office 2010, not in the expense of Windows.Speaking of Windows Phone seven, there were a couple of other news and rumor tidbits of interest this week.On the news front: Microsoft has changed its decision not to pay royalties until February 2011 to Windows Phone 7 app developers (after substantially developer outcry). Now developers will get their first checks in January instead. Microsoft officials said this week there are now more than 4,000 published Windows Telephone seven applications and 18,000 registered developers.On the rumor front, there was word from Paul Thurrott that the first Verizon Windows Phone seven model will be an HTC 7 Trophy,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, and that it may be out in January, 2011. January also is the rumored (and believable) timeframe for the first,Windows 7 64 Bit, promised update from Microsoft for the Windows Phone seven working technique. This won;t be a major update, the Redmondians have said, but it will deliver copy-and-paste functionality. WinRumours is hearing a second Windows Phone 7 operating program update may be on tap for February at the Mobile World Congress event. (Or maybe these two updates are really one and the same, with the January one delayed until February?)I continue to hear from my contacts that there is a very real fear out there that Microsoft might “Kin” WP7 by pulling the plug if early sales are disappointing. I seriously doubt this is the case, as I;ve heard those joining the Windows Phone 7 team (at a high level) were asked to make a five-year commitment for the project. Microsoft isn;t averse to throwing money at a market until it makes a dent (see Xbox, Bing). Whether early Windows Telephone seven sales have been good, bad or ugly, Microsoft is in this one for the long haul.