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[News] The World Goes Mobile, Microsoft left Behind Quickly

  • Subject: [News] The World Goes Mobile, Microsoft left Behind Quickly
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:47:03 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft makes more stabs at wireless

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| Windows on the phone has never matched Windows on the desktop. Can two new 
| plans help? Fortune's Stephanie Mehta scrutinizes Microsoft's strategy. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Easier said than done. Globally Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system 
| for so-called "smart phones" remains a market laggard, while the Nokia-backed 
| Symbian operating system dominates - particularly in markets such as Japan 
| and most of Europe. Meanwhile, it faces stiff competition for corporate users 
| with Research in Motion's (Charts) popular Blackberry messaging platform.    
| Apple makes a bold wireless land grab
| 
| Yet Microsoft has little choice but to move to the mobile world.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/10/22/why-you-shouldnt-care-about-microsofts-white-flag/?mod=yahoo_hs


Earlier:

Microsoft's vision for universal mobile platform a little blurred

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| Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Mobile is currently not even in the 
| second runner in the smartphone operating systems race. Linux, which is 
| widely used on mobile devices in China, is second to Symbian with more than 
| 13% market share. Windows mobile is a distant third with about 6% share.   
`----                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15017/1023/


Related:

After the Desktop -- What?

,----[ Quote ]
| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular 
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
`----

http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html


Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010

,----[ Quote ]
| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
`----

http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/


FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS

,----[ Quote ]
| I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the
| alarm--the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared.
`----

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/feature-mobile-linux-why-it-will-become-the-dominant-mobile-os/2007-01-03


Linux Growth Accelerates with Server Shipments in 4th QTR 2006

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| Unit shipment growth was flat (0.0% growth) year over year in 4Q06, the
| tenth consecutive quarter of slowing overall shipment growth...
| 
| After two consecutive quarters of single-digit revenue growth, Linux
| server revenue growth accelerated once again, growing 15.3% to $1.8
| billion when compared with 4Q05.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Hardware/Linux_Growth_Accelerates_with_Server_Shipments_in_4th_QTR_2006

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