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Apple, Android Surge In Smartphones, Nip At Nokia
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| Apple's iPhone OS surged past Microsoft
| Windows Mobile to hold the third spot,
| selling nearly 25 million units to nearly
| double its market share. Research In Motion
| kept its second-place standing, adding three
| percentage points to its market share.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/02/nokias_loss_is_apples_gain_in.html
Windows Mobile decline both relative and absolute
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| Itâs safe to say 2009 was not a great year
| for Windows Mobile. Not only did its
| smartphone market share slump significantly,
| but it was the only major operating system to
| appear on fewer handsets sold in 2009 than
| 2008.
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http://mobile.blorge.com/2010/02/23/windows-mobile-decline-both-relative-and-absolute/
Recent:
Microsoft is charging Windows Mobile developers indefinitely more than Apple and Google
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| Can you believe that? Market share of Windows
| Mobile is sinking like Titanic, and
| competitors have tens of thousands of apps
| (compared to less than one thousand in Windows
| Mobile app store), plenty of which are not
| available at all (!) for Windows Mobile, and
| what is Microsoft doing?
|
| Microsoft is charging Windows Mobile
| developers indefinitely more than Apple and
| Google as you can see in this comparison...
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http://mobile.msmobiles.com/news.php?id=8939
Microsoft plays down Windows Mobile
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| It isn't the first time that Microsoft has
| missed the boat - it was also a late starter
| in the Internet game - but the company has all
| but dropped the ball with its Windows Mobile
| operating system.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/11358.html
Microsoft to discontinue Mobile2Market program
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| Microsoft will discontinue Mobile2Market, its
| mobile application certification and
| marketing program for independent software
| and hardware vendors.
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http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/microsoft-discontinue-mobile2market-program/2010-01-18
Microsoft Struggles to Extend Desktop Dominance to Mobile
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| Unlike Windows Mobile, the platform developed
| by a massive cross-industry alliance led by
| Internet giant Google, is based on open
| source Linux software and enables greater
| flexibility for programmers building
| applications and features tailored to
| handsets.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/01/133_58798.html
Windows Mobile 7: Should Microsoft even bother?
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| When looking at all the competitors for
| smartphone supremacy, you might say the
| Windows Mobile is DLF in the rankings
| (although a recent report places it at third
| place). Some would even contend that
| Microsoft would have been better off never
| entering this race if it weren't going to put
| up a good fight. That may shock the 7.2
| million users of the Microsoft smartphone OS,
| especially those in the enterprise who don't
| see the iPhone as a serious contender at all
| (due in part to Apple's history of ignoring
| the needs of the enterprise in favor of the
| individual user).
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/windows-mobile-7-should-microsoft-even-bother-356
Microsoft responds to 2016 SMS bug; not just cell phones affected
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| The saga of the Year 2016 text message bug
| continues. While there's not an official
| fix as of yet we, do have a workaround
| (download here). And we just received an
| official statement from a Microsoft
| spokesperson:
|
| âMicrosoft is aware of reports that
| phone messages received after 1/1/2010
| may be dated 2016. These reports have
| not yet resulted in widespread customer
| inquiries; however, we are working
| closely with our manufacturing and
| mobile operator partners to investigate
| the cause and correct the issue as
| appropriate.â
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http://www.wmexperts.com/microsoft-responds-2016-sms-bug-not-just-cell-phones-affected
2016 bug hits Windows phones
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| The date bug which is interfering with Aussie
| point of sale transactions has spread to some
| Windows mobile phones.
|
| The glitch means that text messages received
| since New Year's Eve will appear with a 2016
| date. Card scanners in thousands of Australian
| shops have also been hit, as we reported
| yesterday. Bank of Queensland systems, believing
| it was 2016, rejected most payment cards because
| they'd passed their expiry date.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/05/windows_mobe_bug/
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