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I treatment less about Microsoft executives; continued refusal to go public with shipment amount for Windows Phone 7 than I do regarding the firm;s (hopefully reversible) choice stopping partners from porting the telephone operating system to slates and tablets.At the “Dive Into Mobile” conference this week, Microsoft corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore refused multiple times to provide an update on Windows Telephone 7 sales. If I were Belfiore, I wouldn;t be sharing numbers, either, since — at least in my opinion,Microsoft Office Pro Plus, though not according to Microsoft;s party line — Windows Phone 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 Phone 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, as well.However, I still find myself as incredulous as Engadget;s Editor Joshua Topolsky,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, who asked Belfiore during his on-stage Q&A about Microsoft;s decision to bar partners from shipping Windows Phone OS on tablets and slates.“You can’t possibly be this blind that Windows seven isn’t going to work on tablets in 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 method that Microsoft offers its partners for licensing for tablets and slates, “the provider will evaluate that going forward.”Hopefully the “evaluation” period on that decision 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 Telephone OS update that provided greater HTML 5/Silverlight/Flash support would be even more so, to my mind. Plus, offering the Windows Phone OS on slates would probably boost Microsoft;s telephone OS developer numbers further,Office Pro 2007, and I;d argue, 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 choice not to pay royalties until February 2011 to Windows Telephone 7 app developers (after significantly 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 Phone 7 applications and 18,Office 2007 Professional Plus Key,000 registered developers.On the rumor front, there was word from Paul Thurrott that the first Verizon Windows Phone 7 model will be an HTC seven Trophy, and that it may be out in January,Office 2010 Professional Key, 2011. January also is the rumored (and believable) timeframe for the first, promised update from Microsoft to your Windows Phone seven running program. 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 working program update may be on tap for February in 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 Telephone 7 team (at a high level) were asked to make a five-year commitment on the project. Microsoft isn;t averse to throwing money at a market until it makes a dent (see Xbox, Bing). Whether early Windows Telephone 7 sales have been good, bad or ugly, Microsoft is in this one for the long haul.