WINDOWS Phone, like the ZUNE, is biting the dust....?

Microsofts 'iPod killer' the ZUNE, died an agonizing death after reaching a 9% market share; The Windows phone> only has a 2.7 Marketshare-
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Seven months after shelling out $7.5 billion for Nokia’s mobile- phone unit, Microsoft put its stamp on the business, releasing the first phone to bear the Microsoft name in years.

Where did Microsoft, the Redmond giant that makes most of its money in the U.S. and Europe, start its post-Nokia era?

At a media event in New Delhi, India.

In acquiring Nokia last year, former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer arranged the marriage of two companies that badly lost in the race to sell the first billion smartphones.

The Windows Phone, the Microsoft mobile operating system used almost exclusively in Nokia-produced phones, ran just 2.7 percent of the smartphones shipped worldwide in 2014, according to data tracker IDC. In developed economies, consumers have largely committed to Apple- or Google-powered devices, analysts say.....[less than 50%]


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