Windows Phone 7 launches 11th Oct in UK

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Note 2000 apps at launch.

If many of these are of the' popular on other platforms variety' ( seeing how much cash MSFT has been chucking at developers, it is quite likely), then MSFT could be off to a good start.

So official 'launch' on 11th October with handsets shipping a week later.
That's the way to do it