Microsoft will use one version of its Windows Mobile operating system to combat Android sales, and another version against the iPhone, According to Digitimes.
The hare-brained two-tier strategy won't roll out until October, when Microsoft unleashes WinMo 6.5 upon the uninterested public. If you're waiting for touchscreen functionality, Microsoft will be there for you--in February of 2010, when a touch update will be available as an upgrade. Yes, 2010.
At the end of that year, it will roll out Windows Mobile 7, but instead of ceasing to sell version 6.5, it will simply cut its price and sell both: 6.5 to compete with Android, and 7 to compete with iPhone. Redmond apparently thinks that the only difference between Android buyers and iPhone buyers is their buying power. (Below, a Microsoft video showing OS 6.5 doing a lot of things that RIM, Android, and iPhone users have considered old news for about a year.)
As of fourth quarter 2008, Windows Mobile enjoyed about 12.4% market share worldwide, a slight edge over the iPhone (10.4%) according to Gartner. Android has less than 2% of the market.
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Recent Comments | 4 Total
August 20, 2009 at 12:26am by Frank Klassen
Way to go WinDoze ... yet another forgettable approach to the real world by Microsoft
August 21, 2009 at 9:35am by Polo Martin
I wonder what Microsoft will do to combat this next player, the w@son 4G web phone. Have you seen the site www.get-a-watson.com ?
November 19, 2009 at 11:32am by Jim pedd
Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie.
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November 20, 2009 at 7:30am by Jim pedd
Let that sink in as you consider that as it's been inching up monthly, this is the highest it's been during the last 10 years. Indeed, American workers had good reason to party like it was 1999 that year when unemployment was a relatively low 4.2%.
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