Windows Cellular 7 can come none also shortly for Microsoft, based on the latest mobile market-share data.Microsoft doesn;t create a cellular phone. Like it does within the Pc marketplace, it relies on OEMs to preload its operating method. Should you mix all the cell carriers who supply Windows Mobile, Microsoft nonetheless fell behind Apple,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt, in terms of cell-phone share within the fourth quarter of 2007. That;s according to the marketplace watchers at Canalys.In the fourth calendar quarter of 2007, with 6.five percent share, Apple pulled into 3rd place (behind Nokia and RIM) in the globally “smart mobile device” market,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, Canalys said. In the U.S., Apple also hit the big-time, based on Canalys:“Canalys estimates that Apple took 28% share of the fast growing US converged device market in Q4 2007, behind RIM’s 41%, but a long way ahead of 3rd placed Palm on 9%. This was also enough to put Apple ahead of all Windows Mobile device vendors combined, whose share was 21% inside the quarter based on Canalys figures.”Windows Mobile seven,
Windows 7 Professional, according to the most recent info out there,
Windows 7 Code/, doesn;t sound like it will be done until 2009. It typically takes Microsoft;s handset partners six-plus months to start preloading the most recent version with the cellular OS on new phones, which depending on when in 2009 Windows Mobile 7 is released to manufacturing, could mean late 2009 or even 2010 availability.Will Windows Mobile six.1, expected this year,
Office 2010 Key, along with new Windows Live Cellular services inside the pipeline, be enough to help Microsoft hold its own here? I;m skeptical.