Of course. 2.3 was released purely because of the arrival of WP7.
/s

Coming from a site called wpcentral (Windows Phone Central?) I am not shocked at all that a moronic story such as this would be fabricated...They are the ones insecure and scared (of Android)

STFU all of you guys. The Windows Phone 7 is incredible, don't speak up before you even tried it.

funny how this is the only news source that is delusional enough to think this. Gingerbread has actually been "baking" since Q2 this year, and before the release of WP7.

If anything, its more to combat with the likes of iphone4

More fools defending M$.

The article makes it seem like they just released 2.3 because of WP7. I haven't gotten to mess with the phones yet but it seems neat I have a zuneHD and I like it. But this article is trash because he is drawing inferences from things that don't exist. Anyone who follows anything about android knows that gingerbread has been in the works since way before 2.2 was released in June. I mean come on when the name was announced it was gingerbread of course it was going to be released around Christmas time. It's Google they like to do goofy things like that, that's why froyo was released in the middle of summer.

I just want the HTC Desire HD to come to Telstra in Australia.

That, or maybe I'll wait and see what the Playstation Phone is like.

lol @ this article. Gingerbread has been heavily rumored for months, has been heavily hinted at in recent months, and there was nothing hidden. Also, Android phones have had the greatest share growth in the least amount of time, and are nipping at the heels of Iphone. Iphone still leads the mobile phone gaming market, but there is a huge emphasis on Android by developers; especially since Android's OS has had the greatest market share the past few quarters and doesn't seem to let up. I thought fanboys existed only in the gaming world, but I guess they're invading all realms now :-/

LOL...threatened!?! Its been a month since WP7 released and we havent gotten one statement from MS about how many WP7 phones have sold. Yet in that same time weve had at multiple announcements from them about how well Kinect is selling.

Google sells over 200,000 Android phones a day. Thats more than Apple and Blackberry. Google aint worried about shit....especially WP7.

Sorry I haven't seen a windows phone that has caught my eye.

Upgraded from I phone 3g to mytouch4g and I'm loving it. Droid all
Droid + 4g = Win.

I think the playstation phone will take care off the fragmentation, I mean thinking about it.

Its impending success will force many carries to carry similar phones with nearly identical specs slowly addressing this issue.

The only real threat I see android having is apple; I mean sure as of now they are solely att. But as of next year verizon will carry the iphone line as well, and with that said I wouldnt doubt for second if eventually both sprint and t mobile join the fray.

Add that the iphones popularity and astronomical sales figures and you got yourself a real threat. Not to mention...
Apple right now is just simply gladly taking money from these high vidders, after that I am sure they will want to move forward and expand its userbase a two fold for sure.

But if android holds off in my opinion that would have to be attributed to it being more open and running on cheaper
Devices/ alternatives. Thats just my two cents of course.

Is that MS thought the phone market needed more competition. The Android OS and the iphone have the phone market by the balls. No need to push more phone operating systems into the market. Sorry if Im being ignorant. From what I understand the only thing the Windows 7 phones have going for them is the easiness of checking your messages and emails etc right from the main menu. So what else is mind blowing about these phones? Does it even support apps?

Also @ cardgenius. Well the android os is on multiple carriers and multiple phones. The ios is only on the iphone and only on one network at&t.

What is with the hate? As an iPhone 4 user I welcome the WP7 entry to the market. The Apple OS is tired and cluttered as hell, maybe the WP7 phones to push Apple and Google to innovate a little more, thats a good thing!

So far the only problem with these Windows phone is the hardware. They're boring. Apple have the iphone 4 and it's awesome screen. Android have the Droid X and Evo's huge screen. What do MS have? A bunch of these Droid clones running WP7? Thats not very tempting regardless of how cool the operating system is. MS made a huge mistake by not designing their own phone to separate them from the pack. They shouldn't be relying on HTC and Samsung to carry the torch, those guys have too much at stake in Android.

This article is from Windows Phone Central - how else are they going to report an update to the Android OS: it must be because they are threatened by the feeble offering microsoft have provided.