{"id":154897,"date":"2010-01-08T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=90396"},"modified":"2010-01-08T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:44:24","slug":"has-the-window-closed-for-windows-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/154897","title":{"rendered":"Has the Window Closed for Windows Mobile?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer disappointed those looking for news<\/a> about Windows Mobile at CES this week, leaving onlookers to speculate that the company will unveil version 7 of the aging operating system at Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona, Spain. But I’m beginning to think that without a new operating system, it’s already too late for Redmond to get back in the smartphone game.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s winnowing importance in mobile is well documented<\/a>, of course. WinMo has lost nearly a third of its market share over the last year, according to recent figures from Gartner<\/a>, and AdMob traffic indicates that traffic from the OS on the wireless web has dropped off 70 percent<\/a> during that time. Meanwhile, the iPhone continues to gain traction worldwide, Research In Motion is seeing strong demand <\/a>for the BlackBerry and Google has built on Android’s substantial momentum with its own branded handset<\/a> (which, notably, is manufactured by HTC — a company whose focus is clearly shifting from Redmond to Mountain View<\/a>). To make things worse, Palm will soon make its webOS-based handsets available through both AT&T and Verizon Wireless<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WinMo 6.5 drew scathing reviews<\/a> following its October launch, making it clear that the OS desperately a complete overhaul. But the mobile world has moved very quickly in the last year, and WinMo may simply be outdated beyond repair. Microsoft might regain its relevance in mobile with a brand new OS — I think Palm’s webOS is a great fit<\/a> (GigaOM Pro, sub. required) — but anything less is likely to seal the company’s fate as a niche enterprise player. And that’s a lonely place to be in a smartphone space that is now all about the consumer.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer disappointed those looking for news about Windows Mobile at CES this week, leaving onlookers to speculate that the company will unveil version 7 of the aging operating system at Mobile World Congress next month in Barcelona, Spain. But I’m beginning to think that without a new operating system, it’s already too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}