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Whatever Server Room Politics were going on in Redmond to bring about the abrupt and brutal cancellation of the Kin project, the New York Times reported on July 4th the staggering core reason that Kin One and Kin Two were cancelled, and I have a feeling the shockwaves of this fact are going to have a profound effect on the Windows Phone 7 release and the choices Microsoft makes in the mobile arena from now on…or at least I HOPE they do.

The hows and the whys of this fact should keep Microsoft execs burning the midnight oil until they work out a way to change their current situation.

According to the Times over the weekend:

Microsoft employees were dismayed when they anonymously visited Verizon stores and discovered that employees for the carrier were reluctant to sell the Kin, said a Microsoft executive close to the Kin project. Verizon, the only carrier behind the Kin, tended to promote phones running Google’s Android software.

“It was killed abruptly because no one was buying it and there no was no credible reason to believe anyone would,” this person said.

Fewer than 10,000 Kins were sold.

Less than 10,000 Kins, both models, were sold over 53 days.

150,000 EVO 4Gs were sold over just 3 days

1,700,000 iPhone 4s were sold over just 4 days, and it could have been more if the preorder process had not crashed under the strain.

Any further questions?