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The late offering led analysts to predict Windows Phone 7 will fail to increase Microsoft's share in the smartphone market, with Nokia's Symbian and Google's Android OS dominating the worldwide mobile OS market by 2014, according to Gartner.

The research firm forecasts that open source platforms will dominate, accounting for over 60% of the market for smartphones in 2010, with Android becoming the top OS in the US by the end of 2011. Gartner ranks Windows Phone behind Symbian, Android, Apple's iOS, RIM's Blackberry and Linux-based MeeGo in its 2014 OS ranking forecast - a drop from fifth place in 2010.

"The market is consolidating around three or four platforms - and Microsoft is not one of those," says Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza.
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