Microsoft expects the deal with phone maker Nokia has closed, each year, some 100 million devices with Windows Phone to sell. Currently, Microsoft with its mobile OS is still a small player on the market.
Microsoft made his ambitions known during his Worldwide Partner Conference this week in Los Angeles took place. In addition to the agreement with Nokia, think the company from Redmond that the Windows Phone sales also can be stimulated with lower prices. According to Microsoft would phones with Windows Phone next year for 100 to 150 dollars to purchase.
Because products like Internet Explorer, Skype, Zune, Office 365, and Xbox Live for both pc, tablet, smartphone, and television are available, think Microsoft has an advantage compared to competitor Apple, which, for example, for Mac and iOS different applicatiewinkels. The so-called unified ecosystem the user experience on different devices equivalent and enables users to easily navigate between the different hardware platforms can change.
Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer had previously know the company, with Windows Phone still a small player in the call market. If Microsoft are sales target of one hundred million phones a year, there are still about two times as many Android devices sold by Google executive Andy Rubin had recently know that every day half a million devices running Android are activated, and that this number continues to rise. Rival Apple sold in the first quarter of this year and 16.5 million iPhones.
