{"id":13587,"date":"2010-06-30T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2010-06-30T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T02:46:40","slug":"microsoft-kin-is-done-less-than-2-months-after-launching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/electrotech\/microsoft-kin-is-done-less-than-2-months-after-launching","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Kin is Done Less Than 2 Months After Launching"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now Microsoft has announced that Kin will not be coming to Europe, and that it will be moving those who are still on the Kin team to the Windows Phone 7 team, which would hopefully brings some of Kin to the new smartphone platform. \u00c2\u00a0Microsoft will still continue selling the Kin One and Two with Verizon, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing it on any other carriers any time soon, as in not ever.<\/p>\n According to report from Engadget<\/a>, it looks like Kin may have been doomed from the start. \u00c2\u00a0Microsoft had Danger, the guys who did the original software on the Sidekick, switch from building on top of Danger and switching to a Windows CE-based system. \u00c2\u00a0That delay bothered Verizon, the partner for Kin, and possibly ruined any chance at getting the cheaper data plans the Kin so desperately needed in order to succeed. \u00c2\u00a0With smartphone pricing and the typical expensive data plans, the Kin would ultimately fail before even getting a chance – even with Best Buy offering them up for free<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0There’s a lot more corporate politics over at the Engadget story which makes for an interesting read.<\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft hasn’t had much luck with it’s social-centric semi-smartphone platform, Kin. \u00c2\u00a0Now it looks like that misfortune has finally caught up with the software juggernaut. \u00c2\u00a0Until now, Microsoft had planned to launch the Kin platform in Europe in the Fall of 2010, right around the time when Windows Phone 7 would likely be hitting. {Engadget<\/a>}<\/p>\n