“Fifty percent growth is the minimum,” said Eddie Wu, Microsoft managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia. With this statement, Microsoft declares that it wants to grow Windows Mobile by 50%. Is it possible? There are two ways that you can look at this.

One way is the growth in terms of market share, which is quite impossible: there is no way that Windows Mobile will dominate half of the mobile market anytime soon, even if we just specifying the smartphones’ market.

The other way to look at it, which is the most correct and sensible is the growth of Windows Mobile itself, specifically: sales and shipping. Smartphones are in large demand, and it’s not too difficult to say that Windows Mobile can increase their sales by that much, and the answer are the recent products announced: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, HTC Touch Diamond, etc.

I hope that Microsoft remembered that Google Android and the iPhone 3G are around the corner and might make Microsoft’s mission much more difficult. If the software giant believes that they can increase sales, then the smartphones’ market itself will rise in sales dramatically, and overtake non-smartphones, or regular phones.

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Source: WMExperts