• Bloomberg, Friday, September 17, 2010 1:18 AM

Windows Phone 7 hasn't even launched, and it's already suffering major setbacks. Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, on Thursday said it won't sell handsets with Microsoft's mobile operating system until 2011. "Verizon Wireless won't offer a device at the planned fall introduction or at any point this year," Brenda Raney, a Verizon spokeswoman, tells Bloomberg.

The carrier does plan to support the new operating system, and will "probably" release a phone in 2011, said Raney. "The more carriers and the more devices [Microsoft] can bring early on, the more chance they have for mainstream success," analyst Michael Gartenberg told Bloomberg. Still, he added, "Not having Verizon will not make or break it." Microsoft revamped its mobile operating system in an effort to regain market-share from Apple's iPhone and Google's Android mobile OS. As Bloomberg notes, Microsoft and Verizon's most recent mobile collaboration, on Microsoft's Kin phone, was an outright failure.

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