Angry Birds Space will indeed hit Windows Phones, CEO says

From CNET News.com: Angry Birds Space is not yet available to Windows Phone 7 users, but will be soon, according to the CEO of game maker Rovio, who contradicted an earlier report quoting a company executive who said the new game would skip the Microsoft platform.

The kerfuffle suggests that Microsoft's clout may be on the rise in the smartphone arena. Absent the new Angry Birds games, Windows Phone 7 could have a much harder time attracting new users. That, in turn, could hurt Microsoft partner Nokia, which just brought its first Windows Phone 7 handset to the U.S.

At least, that seems a plausible interpretation of the sudden volte-face Rovio has just executed.

In an interview with Reuters, Rovio CEO Mikael Hed said the company was "working towards getting Angry Birds Space to WP7."

While Hed didn't say when Windows Phone users could expect the game, his comments directly contradicted what Rovio's chief marketing officer told Bloomberg in an interview published earlier today. That official, Peter Vesterbacka, said that "it's a big undertaking" to support Microsoft's mobile operating system, since the game -- currently available for iOS and Android -- would have to be completely rewritten for Microsoft's current mobile OS.

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