Windows Phone 7's future looks bright--until the numbers are crunched
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| The Wall Street Journal reports that
| several current and former Microsoft
| employees express growing concern about
| the company's struggles in the consumer
| market, especially the mobile segment. So
| when the blogosphere erupted late last
| week with reports that Microsoft told a
| developer conference audience it expected
| sales of devices based on its forthcoming
| Windows Phone 7 OS to top 30 million by
| the end of 2011, citing market data from
| research firm IDC, more than a few
| onlookers did a double take. One problem:
| IDC has no idea where those numbers
| originated. "We don't know who used it and
| where it came from. It's kind of
| disturbing," IDC wireless analyst Will
| Stofega told The Seattle Times. "We're
| really pissed."
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| Redmond's mobile strategy has never looked
| more schizophrenic than it does now.
| Microsoft has no idea what to do with the
| Kin, or with WP7.
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