Ballmer: Microsoft is with Windows Phone 7 a small player

Microsoft is still on telefoongebied a small player. That said Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer during a keynote address at a meeting for partner companies. Windows 7 was successful; there were 350 million pcs with the OS sold.

According to Ballmer, Windows Phone 7 has not led to the hoped-for increase of the market share in the fast-growing smartphonesegment. “We are in a year from very small to… very small gone,” said the Microsoft ceo. Research firm Pew reports that 4 percent of Americans with a smartphone Windows Mobile or Windows Phone is running.

Ballmer thinks that it is follow with Windows Phone 7, despite the small success in the first year. “You’ll see that much will happen in the market.” Within a few months, comes in Mango, the next version of Windows Phone. Mango will also run on Nokia smartphones. By Nokia would have the market share must significantly increase; Microsoft pays billions to the Finnish manufacturer with Windows Phone devices. Nokia since a year, under the leadership of Stephen Elop, who previously in the Office division of Microsoft led.

Windows 7 was a success in the past year, according to Ballmer. There were last year a total of 350 million pcs with the operating system sold. Ballmer made the comparison with an unnamed competitor, which was 20 million desktops and laptops sold. The ceo was referring to this probably on Apples Mac OS X. Ballmer gave Monday a keynote on Microsoft’s own World Wide Partner Conference, a meeting for partners working with Microsoft.