News · 13 Jul 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner just announced during his WPC 2011 keynote that the company’s hopes to sell up to 100 Million Windows Phone devices per year thanks to the collaboration with Nokia:
We have dreams and aspirations that we can get to 100 million units per year with that single deal.
The company is still long ways off like Steve Ballmer said 2 days ago during his keynote: “Marketshare went from very small too…very small”. This fall’s launch of Mango will be key to the platform’s success. We have already seen several of the upcoming phones by Nokia, HTC, Samsung, Acer, Fujistu and, ZTE but Marketing will also have to be top notch. Hit the break for a Google and Oracle bashing slides straight from the keynote:
Oracle:
Microsoft comparing Apple’s strategy vs Microsoft Strategy which kinda shows that Windows Phone 8 may be running the same kernel as Windows 8:
one more slide:
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