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kureyon is offline kureyon
2011-02-11 , 04:23
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Originally Posted by RFS-81 View Post
Not today, probably not in near future. But they will keep trying.. and have the tendency to get things right eventually (look at Windows 7). "Winning" against Microsoft is a matter of decades, not days.
Desktop Windows has a huge lock-in factor - all those legacy apps and apps that are only available for Windows makes ditching Windows hard. They can release **** and many people will still be "forced" to buy it. Vista may have been a total failure in software terms, but it allowed MS to make even more money - once, by forced bundling into new computers/notebooks, and again when people have to pay to upgrade back to XP.

In phones MS has no lock-in advantage to exploit. And WP7 isn't even compatible with old WM. If WM was a separate business it would have folded a long long time ago. MS has pumped billions of dollars into it and in return are rewarded with miniscule and still declining market share.