Microsoft recently announced its quarterly bilances – in case you are looking for the full report, it is available here. A few additional juicy news bits have been thrown in for your convenience – enjoy!
Windows Mobile growth
Microsoft itself states that
Mobile and embedded devices revenue increased $30 million or 21% in Q4 driven by sales growth in Windows Mobile software and Windows Embedded operating systems.
. However, since Microsoft treats the Windows Mobile division as part of a department called EDD(they also do the infamous XBOX 360), the numbers given herein are not really significant.
Windows 7
The German news service heise.de received official confirmation that Microsoft is working on a Vista successor(uh-oh). The product is currently codenamed Windows 7 and is planned to ship “three years after the competition” of Vista.
Windows Vista
While Vista’s market share is increasing slowly but surely(approx 4% according to InformationWeek), Acer has officially attacked Microsoft about Vista in the german edition of Financial Times. The manufacturer says that Vista is the “weakest” release from Microsoft ever, and states that he considers stability a major problem.
Overall, things seem to look well for Windows Mobile. What do you think?
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