"Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year's third quarter and this year's third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner.
Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft's mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the iPhone's share rose from 12.9 percent to 17.1 percent, and Research In Motion's share jumped from 16 percent to 20.8 percent."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10397897-94.html
If its losing market share and facing a new competitor with Google Android as well as the upsurge in market share from other devices then its also quite likely that the margins per Windows Mobile phone are falling as well as they drop the price to compete. This wasn't a division that was making money when it was merged with EDD so its quite possible that with added investment being required of the division to stay relevant that what was once a division breaking even is now a source of losses hidden amongst the other profit making endeavours. Windows mobile 7 is coming though and it may be able to ride the coat tails of Windows 7's success but at the moment they aren't doing that well based on what they have released.
As for the keyboard/mice peripheral share all I have is an anecdote as I can't pull up data to support/disprove it. I've been doing a lot of computer shopping recently to build a few computers and every single computer store or computer department I went to had significantly more Logitech keyboards/mice than Microsoft keyboards and there were fewer Microsoft keyboards/mice SKUs than I remember. Can anyone else tell me more about this?
Tease.
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