Microsoft expects 50% growth for Windows Mobile
Microsoft has optimistically announced that it expects at least 50% growth for Windows Mobile in 2008 and 2009 as smartphone sales rise rapidly.
"Fifty percent growth is the minimum," says Eddie Wu, the software company's managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia.
Microsoft expects to sell 20 million units in the fiscal year ending in June, far higher than the previous year's 11 million.
"We're actually still seeing very good growth (for our mobile software) in markets like Europe and the United States," says Wu, adding that growth of Windows Mobile has been fastest in the emerging markets of Asia, the Middle East, Brazil, Russia and India.
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