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That seems a bit unfair, not to mention misleading.
For a start, since it isn't MS who produce the hardware, so they are limited somewhat by those who do - if the hardware manufacturers don't produce anything that people want, then of course the OS's market-share is going to drop and that's really no fault of MS, is it? You could have the greatest OS in the world, if no-one makes anything that runs it, you won't have a market-share.

Also, the figures are for Q2, so before any of the recent releases like the Touch Pro and the Omnia, before the up-coming X1, the just-announced Touch HD, the rumoured Asus 'Galaxy7' or whatever it's called. Even the Touch Diamond was only released in May and, therefore will have had little-to-no market impact during the period these figures cover.
So, the sizeable drop in WM sales could be little more than people holding off for the slew of much-nicer-looking devices that were on the horizon, as opposed to any migration away from the OS as a whole.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice if they'd just hurry up and get WM7 out already, I'm just saying that you're being a bit presumptive to declare WM6/6.1 as being dead in the water.]]>Sep 15th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/14/smartphone-sales-up-in-q2-08-blackberry-leapfrogs-windows-mobi/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/14/smartphone-sales-up-in-q2-08-blackberry-leapfrogs-windows-mobi/a relic.]]>Sep 15th 2008 10:40AM