The entire notion that only 674,000 Windows Phone 7′s being sold, which in turn seems to have everyone jumping on the #FAIL bandwagon is really beginning to grate on my nerves.

As much as I feel inclined to have my say on the matter, I think Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web has written up a great post that tries to bring some sanity to this nonsense, so I strongly suggest you give it a read.

The best part for me was the last couple of paragraphs:

But this not the catastrophic scenario that people are bandying about. Windows Phone 7 is  a new platform that is taking its time, perhaps too much time, finding an audience. But that said, the phone line is well put together and should manage to retain many of its initial customers. And thus Microsoft will keep pouring money into it to help foster its growth.

This is, if you think about it, what we have always known about WP7. These new numbers are both too imprecise, and probably too old (it now being Q2 of 2011, etc) to mean much. But that didn’t stop the headlines, now did it?

Nicely said Alex.

[Cross-posted at Winextra]