Microsoft recognized that it used an inaccurate number to symbolize research company IDC's sales predict for the future Windows Phone 7 platform.

Throughout an arrangement at the ReMix meeting, Microsoft demonstrate a slide that said IDC had predict 30 million Windows Phone 7 devices possible to be sold by end of 2011. The MobileTechWorld blog position a picture of the French-language slide.

As it turns out, IDC had said no such thing concerning the future operating system, on which many spectators consider Microsoft's mobile-phone potential, depends.

In its place, the research company predicts 2011 sales of 32 million devices running all Windows mobile operating systems.

This contains predictable sales of devices with Windows Mobile 6.5, which is previously on the market. IDC has not known any sales estimation for Windows Phone 7, which Microsoft has said will be accessible in the fourth quarter.

"At the ReMix meeting, Microsoft offered a slide prognostic the number of Windows Phone 7 to be sold in 2011. This slide was inaccurate, and future to symbolize a forecaster appraisal of the market chance," Microsoft said in a ready declaration.

The company added that it has not given any sales predicted of its own for the OS.

IDC would not be able to predict sales of Windows Phone 7 devices awaiting the OS are on sale and it has been able to converse with mobile worker and hardware dealers, mobile predictor said.