Microsoft Finally Admits WP7 Was A Dud At Partner Conference

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally admitted the blinding obvious when he told a Microsoft partners conference yesterday that Windows Phone 7 OS has not been “the success the company had hoped for”.

Ballmer made the admission Monday during the opening speech Monday at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles.

“In a year, we’ve gone from very small to … very small,” said Ballmer, referring to the WP7 market share.

Six months ago the Company was bragging as to how they were spending $400M marketing new WP7 phones which have been totally rejected by consumers in Australia in favour of Android devices.

According to analysts Microsoft only sold a million new WP7 handsets at launch with carrier’s still carrying stock that they took in when WP7 handsets were launched in December 2010.

Google’s Android operating system remains No. 1 while Windows Phone lost ground even further in recent months according to the latest comScore report.

Now Microsoft is banking on Nokia to save their failed WP7 OS from total failure.

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