In memoriam: Microsoft’s previous strategic mobile partners

<Quote> Microsoft’s new “strategic partnership” with Nokia is not its first. For a decade the software company has courted and consummated relationships with a variety of companies in mobile and telecom. Here are the ones I ...

Message posted on the May 4th, 2012 - 1:30 PM ET

Strategy Analytics: Nokia Becomes World's Largest Microsoft Smartphone Vendor in Q4 2011

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global Microsoft smartphone shipments grew 36 percent sequentially to reach 2.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. Nokia captured top position as ...

Press published on the February 24th, 2012 - 7:10 AM ET

Strategy Analytics: Microsoft to Capture 4 Percent Smartphone Marketshare in United States in 2012

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system will capture 4 percent share of 123 million smartphones sold in the United States market during 2012, rising ...

Press published on the July 18th, 2012 - 6:16 AM ET

Strategy Analytics: Microsoft to Capture 12 Percent of Western Europe Smartphone Sales in 2012

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the Microsoft Windows Phone operating system will capture 12 percent share of smartphone sales in Western Europe during 2012. Nokia, Samsung and HTC will be ...

Press published on the October 25th, 2011 - 4:03 AM ET

Rumours of a Microsoft Pink Smartphone circulating once more

Facing increasing rumours about Apple products, Microsoft has decided to fight back with their own rumour about a new Smartphone.

News published on the January 20th, 2010 - 12:10 PM ET

Android and iOS Combine for 91.1% of the Worldwide Smartphone OS Market in 4Q12 and 87.6% for the Year, According to IDC

Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 91.1% of all smartphone shipments during the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12). According to the ...

Press published on the February 14th, 2013 - 8:00 AM ET

Research and Markets: Smartphone Markets: Worldwide Trends, Forecasts and Strategies 2012-2017

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/45cl3d/smartphone) has announced the addition of the "Smartphone Markets: Worldwide Trends, Forecasts and Strategies 2012-2017" report to their ...

Press published on the February 8th, 2013 - 11:50 AM ET

The first Windows Phone 7 Smartphone to be released by LG

The last Engadget Show provided us with a quick view of the first Windows 7 Phone to be released by LG Electronics, confirming that the manufacturer will be supporting Microsoft’s new platform.

News published on the March 1st, 2010 - 9:15 AM ET

Microsoft In Talks To Buy Nokia's Smartphone Division?

<http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/2325227/microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-nokias-smartphone-division> <quote> "Analyst Eldar Murtazin, announced today that Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer was soon to meet his Nokia ...

Message posted on the January 6th, 2012 - 1:36 AM ET

Microsoft captures just one per cent of US smartphone sales with Windows Phone 7

<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2083497/microsoft-captures-cent-smartphone-sales-windows-phone> <quote> SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft has managed to get just one per cent of the US smartphone market in the quarter ended May ...

Message posted on the July 2nd, 2011 - 9:21 AM ET

Microsoft's marketshare falls thanks to WP7

<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2032210/microsofts-marketshare-falls-thanks-wp7> <quote> PROVIDING A TASTE of what Nokia might have to look forward to, Comscore has revealed that Microsoft's launch of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) led ...

Message posted on the March 8th, 2011 - 11:27 AM ET

Microsoft will shut down its Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace

<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2158408/microsoft-shut-windows-mobile-6x-marketplace> <quote> An invitation to jump over to Android SOFTWARE REDEVELOPER Microsoft has told Windows Mobile customers that it will be shutting ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2012 - 10:55 AM ET

Death to (Microsoft) Word

~~ Death to Word It’s time to give up on Microsoft’s word processor. By Tom Scocca Nearly two decades and several text-handling paradigms ago, I was an editorial assistant at a weekly newspaper, where a few freelancers still submitted ...

Message posted on the April 14th, 2012 - 8:01 AM ET

Has Microsoft opened the door to the Linux desktop?

<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/has-microsoft-opened-the-door-to-the-linux-desktop/11282> <quote> Microsoft has alienated its hardware partners and will soon be rolling out a version of Windows that many people already dislike. ...

Message posted on the June 25th, 2012 - 12:18 PM ET

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