BILL GATES has some serious hair pulling to do. Facing competition in the smartphone market, Microsoft is most likely to launch 2 new phone softwares in the coming week.
According to sources Microsoft’s share in the ‘global smartphone operating system market’ is falling like never before.
From 13.9 percent last year, it has now shrunk to 8.8 per cent says a research report.Symbian, the system used on Nokia phones has 47.2 percent market share, RIM's BlackBerry has 20.8 per cent and Apple's iPhone has 15.1 per cent share of the market.Also in the pipeline is Google Inc's new Android system, which already has a 4.7 percent share of the market.In order to regain its lost position, Microsoft is most likely to come up with operating systems that will find buyers in the new age smart phone companies.At present, it makes operating systems for phones made by HTC Corp, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Motorola and others.