UPDATED: Windows Phone 7 will come with Tethering Support…Not

It’s confirmed! Windows Phone 7 will come with tethering support right from the get go. This is the big revelation Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, disclosed during an interview on the TWiT podcast Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrot. Native tethering support will be great news for Windows Mobile aficionados who frequently use their mobile phone as a modem to connect to the World Wide Web, but the silver lining here is it’ll still be up to the carrier’s if they’ll permit it or not. That’s a big if, but nonetheless, news that tethering support will be there is still good news on its own. So, now that it’s clear that tethering is supported in Windows Phone 7, the question now is, which carriers will allow tethering via Windows Phone 7? That’s what we’re hoping to find out in the coming weeks as we’re expecting the first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices to be officially announced this coming October. [source] UPDATE: Engadget got word from Microsoft and it’s not good news. Despite Mr. Watson’s claims, Microsoft is now denying that tethering will be supported in the maiden release of Windows Phone 7. Now, as much as we’d like to simply take Mr. Watson’s word here, Microsoft still has the final say, and if they say there won’t be tethering on Windows Phone 7, there probably won’t be.