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        Microsoft expects meteoric Windows Mobile sales

        Jonathan Angel | Date: May 27, 2008 | Comments: 1



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        Microsoft expects global unit sales of Windows Mobile-based cellphones to grow at least 50 percent per year in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. The fastest growth will take place in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Brazil, Russia, and India, according to a company executive interviewed today.




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        "Fifty percent growth is the minimum," Eddie Wu, the company's managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters on the sidelines of a news conference on Tuesday. "We're actually still seeing very good growth in markets like Europe and the United States," he added.

        According to Wu, Microsoft expects to sell 20 million units in its 2007/2008 fiscal year ending in June, and expects to grow at least 50 percent annually over the next two years. It reportedly sold over 11 million units of its Windows Mobile software in the 2006/2007 fiscal year that ended last June.

        For further details of the Reuters interview and analysts' comments, see our sister site eWEEK.com, here.



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