In Europe there are smartphones based on MS PocketPC. Some cellphones (e.g. Sony CMD-J7) also use MS Mobile Explorer for Web Browsing (which is kind of cool, because it attempts to display HTML, not only WML).
Besides, if you read the article, you will see that it talks about "suspicions" about Microsoft's plans, not its current market share in mobile phones. The EU fears that mobile phones will become like IBM-compatible PCs - commodity hardware all running the same software. Which, given Microsoft's resources and competitive strategies, seems like a very likely scenario.
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So why are Handspring, Sony, etc. developing PDAs based on Palm OS?
In Europe there are smartphones based on MS PocketPC. Some cellphones (e.g. Sony CMD-J7) also use MS Mobile Explorer for Web Browsing (which is kind of cool, because it attempts to display HTML, not only WML).
Besides, if you read the article, you will see that it talks about "suspicions" about Microsoft's plans, not its current market share in mobile phones. The EU fears that mobile phones will become like IBM-compatible PCs - commodity hardware all running the same software. Which, given Microsoft's resources and competitive strategies, seems like a very likely scenario.
You must have been watching too much television these days... Especially those network-channel sitcoms, like "In-Laws"...