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Windows Phone Free-Fall May Force Microsoft To Push Harder On Windows 10 (pcworld.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the one-step-back-two-steps-forward dept.

tripleevenfall quotes a report from PCWorld: Microsoft sold a minuscule 2.3 million Lumia phones last quarter, down from 8.6 million a year ago. Phone revenue declines will only "steepen" during the current quarter, chief financial officer Amy Hood warned during a conference call. That's dragged down Microsoft's results as a company, too. As the company's mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate, Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone. CEO Satya Nadella's strategy is simple enough: grow Microsoft's revenues by convincing customers to adopt its paid subscription services.

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  1. Harder?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    How would they do it?! It already installs itself on any >win6 box if you miss a mandatory "nooooooooooo, fuck off"-click every hour!

  2. Re:Time for the Paid Shills to Earn Their Keep! by Octorian · · Score: 5, Informative

    When Windows Phone was newer, Microsoft paid everyone to write apps for it. As such, people were giving it tons of half-hearted lipservice calling it the "legitimate 3rd platform" to the exclusion of anything else (that didn't have as big of a bank account behind it).

    Now that they've stopped the payouts, and still keep changing the APIs, support is dropping and a lot of that lipservice is starting to fade away.

  3. Re: I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. by Z00L00K · · Score: 1, Informative

    I have been involved in administrating both *NIX and Windows boxes but powershell isn't really something that provides any added value for me.

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  4. Re:What? by sootman · · Score: 3, Informative

    > it's likely that they want to at some point force you
    > go through the "Windows Store" to buy programs,
    > just like Apple does on their "App Store"

    Score: -1, Factually Incorrect. Apple does NOT "force" you to buy apps in their store. They encourage you to use the store, sure, and they'll pop up a warning the first time you try to run an app from somewhere else, but it's literally one click in System Preferences to say "run software from anywhere."

    http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-con...

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