Engadget came across a Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 video that seemed to have “slipped the net”. The video is a segment from Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner’s infamous Windows Phone 7 presentation. In the video, Turner confirms that Windows Phone 7 devices will be released in October for Europe and in November for the US.

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The news is pretty significant as this is the most straight-forward news that has been released by Microsoft about its upcoming mobile phones. Still, the biggest headline that stemmed from Turner’s presentation was when the Microsoft COO compared the bumper issues with Apple’s iPhone 4 to the failures of Windows Vista.

Current Microsoft Corporation Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner made the comparison and called the iPhone 4 Apple’s Windows Vista.

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“It looks like iPhone 4 might be their Vista and I’m okay with that,” Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer, told an audience during the Worldwide Partner Conference on July 14.

If you are not aware (at this point, everyone is), Turner was poking fun at his main rival, referring to the dismay that consumers had at his own company due to Vista having to have several major updates and Service Packs before the operating system’s bugs and compatibility issues were resolved.

The latest iPhone has had major antenna issues, with Apple founder Steve Jobs even calling the problem “Antennagate”. Apple tried to ratify the problem at its June 16th conference by offering free bumpers and making sure that the company threw its rivals (primarily RIM and Motorola) under the bus. Jobs even went the length to demonstrate reception issues with the rival’s phones.

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