The Microsoft Mobile platform’s future is now all depend on how Zune HD will be received. If Zune HD tanks, which is not a slim possibility, Microsoft might as well get out of the mobile market completely for there is NO HOPE!

But now Zune HD is enjoying raving hypes like the Win 7, so the future might not be so gloomy for MSFT after all. Talk about raving hypes, I seriously don’t understand what’s so great and exciting about Zune HD or Win 7, they are OK, but nothing extraordinaire for that matter. Must be a major depressive disorder thing or something.

When Nokia announced it’s first netbook today I was (as others) surprised it would run MS Windows. But then, certainly when you look at the figures presented in this article, it makes perfect sense.
Microsoft and Nokia are the No.1 in respectively the computer and the mobile phone market. Apple is forcing a merger between these two markets resulting in a combined smartphone/laptop market space. Apple now is a huge and immediate threat to both Microsoft and Nokia.
Microsoft is good at software (well…….) and bad at hardware. Nokia is good at hardware and bad at software. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It is not even a secret: the Microsoft/Nokia alliance has officially been announces.

The future is to be Microkia ;-)

Anyway, semantics aside, the point is that the iPhone ended up capturing more of the market in 2 years than all Windows Mobile devices could do in 10.

I’d like a brand new fully kitted macpro for free too, unlike ballmer though I have some sense of the difference between fantasy and reality.

According to the first comment posted here, Ballmer said 1.8 billion phones which is clearly All phones. Anyway, that was when iPhone was $400-$600 and I think was before Android and Symbian was closed-source. iPhone now sells for much less.

Licensed and free models of Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile should win as the smartphone and smartbooks market grows larger to greater than 500 million units.