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New Topic Post Reply Add to Bookmarks Posts: New posts 24 hours Hot Top 20 Account: Inbox / PM Login Register   Help Search Author Microsoft eyes 40 percent of smartphone market by 2012 masseur Joined: Jan 03, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Sydney, London PM Posted: 2008-05-14 21:04 InfoWorld article Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday. The article goes on to say how 11 million smartphones out of 118 million sold in 2007 had the windows mobile operating system and they expect 20 million in 2008 more... Unless I'm very much mistaken... A-ZoTT Brightspark Joined: Aug 19, 2007 Posts: 326 From: UK PM Posted: 2008-05-15 04:59 ha they'll be lucky.....and blindly hopeful. also, those 11 million include both smartphones and PDAs. microsoft's market share in smartphones is still quite low (around 3-4% according to this: http://mobilephonedevelopment.com/archives/507 ), whereas the majority of their sales comes from the dying PDA market. [ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2008-05-15 04:26 ] Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi New Topic Reply