moconews.net - 2/19/2009
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image At Microsoft’s press conference yesterday at Mobile World Congress, if you tied two threads together, you learned a very interesting fact about HTC, one of the company’s closest handset makers—the Taiwanese company is responsible for 80 percent of Windows Mobile phone sales. The number is ...
microsoft.com - 2/13/2009
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microsoft.com —
Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the
PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing...
and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores. REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 12, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that ...
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Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice ...
blogs.zdnet.com - 2/12/2009
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blogs.zdnet.com —
February 6th, 2009 A Microsoft smartphone: No. A
Microsoft phone chassis: Yes Posted by Mary Jo Foley...
@ 5:31 am Categories: Code names , Corporate strategy , Mobile services ("Pink"/"Rouge") , Telecommunications , Windows Live , Windows Mobile , Xbox ...
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A Microsoft smartphone: No. A Microsoft phone ...
appleinsider.com - 2/25/2009
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appleinsider.com —
As software giant Microsoft is warning of continued
economic hardship after its first round of layoffs ever,...
the company's chief executive is eyeing competition from Apple, Linux, and Google on the desktop while downplaying the market strength of the ...
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Ballmer sees Mac as a main competitor, iPhone as just buzz
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Microsoft: HTC has made 80% of all Windows Mobile phones
AppleInsider —
... Published: 09:20 PM EST While playing up the fact that 50 phone makers around the world have licensed the company's Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft inadvertently let it slip out that a full 80% of all Windows Mobile phones ever made have actually come from a single maker: HTC. On stage at the Mobile World Congress, Andy Lees, Microsoft's senior vice president of its mobile communications business, stated the company had reached a milestone of 50 million devices sold over the lifetime of the platform, which stretches back into at least 2003 (and perhaps earlier, depending ...
HTC Makes 80% Of Windows Mobile Handsets
Cult of Mac —
... Earlier, Andy Lees, an executive of Microsoft’s mobile business. told the same Barcelona, Spain audience 50 million Windows mobile devices were sold since 2003. ...
Has HTC sold 80% of all Windows Mobile phones?
jkOnTheRun —
... The Microsoft press event this week covered the usual type of stuff, — sales numbers, kudos for our partners and the like. Something about the numbers I heard thrown around by Microsoft and partners didn’t sit right but I couldn’t put my fingers on just why. The mocoNews folks noticed the same thing and were able to figure out what was just out of my grasp. ...
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