While a headlines today that Microsoft has killed the troubled Kin line didn’t come as the craziest of surprises, it’s definitely left a lot of slow questions about only what happened. Now you may have the small discernment into what went wrong — as well as what might be in store down the highway — thanks to the arguable source of ours who’s shared a little headlines upon Redmond’s middle misunderstanding.

Apparently, the troubles proposed long before a swirling Pink phone rumors (and approach prior to the name Kin was ringing in the ears). According to our source, a birth of these inclination began with a decision at Microsoft to create the height dubious, cloud-centric featurephone. A featurephone that could be had during a comparatively low price, and sole to the burgeoning market of teens as well as immature adults who had little need for the BlackBerry-level device (or pricing). The first step in the project was acquiring Danger to leverage a work it had finished with the Sidekick height, as well as aligning with Verizon as a launch partner who could offer attractive pricing skeleton for the devices to a big pool… and here’s where the difficulty starts.

It seems that after doing a little initial work on these phones based around Danger’s exclusive Sidekick OS, Andy Lees — the SVP of Microsoft’s mobile division — instructed everyone to go behind to a sketch board and reconstruct the OS formed upon Windows CE. It appears a association didn’t want the project that wasn’t directly connected to the Windows kernel. This move allegedly set a release of the devices back 18 months, during which time Redmond’s conduit partner became increasingly undone with the delays. Apparently when it came time to actually move a Kins to market, Big Red had soured on a deal altogether and was no longer formulation to offer a bargain-basement pricing deals it first had tendered. The rest, as they contend, is history — though you don’t think even good prices could have accounted for what was fundamentally a injured product. Our source says that the fallout from this uneasy partnership is that Microsoft has corroborated divided from Verizon as a Windows Phone 7 launch partner, claiming that the initial handsets you see won’t be offered on the CDMA carrier — rather that you should expect GSM partners to get first moment.

But wait for, there’s some-more — the Kin team is being refocused onto the WP7 project, though that’s not a usually shakeup starting on. Our source pronounced there had been rumblings which Steven Sinofsky — president of a Windows and Windows Live groups — is making a play for a complete mobile multiplication as good in an try to move a unified, Windows-centric product line to market. If these rumors have been true, the push inside a association could pierce to bring into line all forthcoming projects with an overarching strategy that leads behind to the introduction of the much more cloud cover- as well as mobile-centered Windows 8 release. This goes without delay against what we heard reps evangelize during both WMC and MIX10 this year, where the mantra was “the phone is not a PC.” If things go according to this plan, like Ballmer pronounced during D8, “They’re all PCs.” Of march, these are big gestures which would cause vital waves — zero has happened only nonetheless.

If you’re seeking for the transparent design in all this, what a simple takeaway seems to be is which a association is in the critical state of flux right now. The depart of J. Allard and Robbie Bach, a death of a Courier project, and right away this Kin disturbance all seem to be transparent signs which rapid and startling changes are stirring. Hopefully Windows Phone 7 will power by this disaster and broach on the promises done progressing in a year — you know that a company is able of good things, but an atmosphere of infighting as well as difficulty typically doesn’t lead to extraordinary products. We’ve got our fingers crossed that Microsoft beats a odds.

Update: Our source says a Sinofsky moves may not be as cut as well as dry as originally communicated, as well as we’ve edited the on top of content with the premonition.