Analysts predict Windows Phone 7 potentially raise prestige of Microsoft in the competitive mobile OS, but can also even the software giant is increasingly drowned.
Adam Holt, analyst at Morgan Stanley said that, although the mobile OS business contributed only one percent in revenue to Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 becomes something very important to the company, based in Redmond, Washington, United States (U.S.) it.
Reported by AFP and quoted on Monday (10/11/2010), the CEO himself, Steve Ballmer seems so sure that the Windows Phone 7 will help Microsoft get a ‘claw’ back in market share that makes it already lags behind Apple’s iPhone, the BlackBerry by Research in Motion (RIM) and Google’s Android-based devices.
“I think our product will stand out compared with other products. We will not launch a product if it does not feel that this is the best opportunity,” Ballmer said at a business conference in Madrid, Spain some time ago.
Meanwhile, Holt said, Microsoft is entitled optimistic newest mobile OS will have a bright future. Based on the estimate of Morgan Stanley, Windows Phone 7 could achieve annual growth of around 38 percent.
“Considering Windows Phone 7 debuted in the middle of a super tight competition, Microsoft seems to have developed a new generation platform that could help him gain credibility in the realm of mobile OS,” said Holt.
While IDC analyst Ramon Llamas said, Windows 7 Phone is the first most significant update Microsoft is performed on its mobile OS. And this OS came after the failure of Kin mobile phone which was launched some time ago. “As we know, Kin is a total failure,” he said.
Windows Phone 7 sliding scheduled October 11, 2010 in New York, local time. Reportedly the latest mobile OS-based devices that Microsoft would have visited around the world in the next few weeks after its release.
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