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First iPhone, now Droid. Who needs Windows?
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| If the iPhone didn't finish off Windows
| Mobile in the smartphone market, the Motorola
| Droid may.
|
| Windows Mobile is losing the last vestiges of
| its mojo--if it really had any to begin
| with--as the Droid and other phones based on
| the Android 2.0 operating system push the
| buzz meter needle into the red zone. Many in
| the media--which can play a big role in
| steering users to one technology platform or
| another--sense that Windows Mobile has now
| been relegated resolutely to has-been status.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10392926-92.html
Has Microsoft Placed Its Last Mobile Bet?
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| But Microsoft, with its deep pockets, worked
| away at it and by last year, after first
| launching in 2002, Windows Mobile had a
| respectable 13.9 percent of worldwide
| smartphone market share, according to
| researchers at Canalys.
|
| This year brought an abrupt backward slide.
| By the second quarter 2009, Windows Mobile
| had slipped to just 9 percent market share,
| its lowest since early 2006, Canalys said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181605/has_microsoft_placed_its_last_mobile_bet.html
Recent:
How Windows Mobile Is Becoming Microsoft's New Vista
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| Microsoft's channel partners, meanwhile, are
| seeing dwindling demand for Windows Mobile-
| related business. "We've stopped working with
| Windows Mobile because our client base isn't
| asking for it," said Stuart Crawford,
| business development manager at Bulletproof
| Infotech, a solution provider in Red Deer,
| Alberta. "We've gone to Blackberry
| internally, and we're seeing a lot of clients
| asking for iPhone. I'm a strong Microsoft
| advocate, but there are too many challenges
| with Windows Mobile."
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http://www.crn.com/software/220900607;jsessionid=ULJN43B4KDRMPQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
Microsoft smartphone OS is a hard sell
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| Amid all the talk last week of a "groundbreaking"
| partnership between Verizon Wireless and Google,
| word of Microsoft launching its revamped operating
| system, Windows Mobile 6.5, and Verizon introducing
| one of the first smartphones to run it, the HTC
| Imagio, largely fell on deaf ears.
|
| Not that I'm surprised.
|
| The Verizon-Google partnership is a big deal. It not
| only ensures Google's touch-screen Android operating
| system will make it onto cell phones nationwide, it
| finally will give consumers a worthy alternative to
| the Apple iPhone and AT&T.
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http://www.indystar.com/article/20091012/BUSINESS10/910120328/1110/BUSINESS10/Microsoft+smartphone+OS+is+a+hard+sell
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