Microsoft Plans to Enlarge its Sales in India

Microsoft is planning to enlarge its sales of such products as smartphones in the Indian market after its netbooks – the bridge between mobiles and laptops – found the market in India.

According to Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft Corporate Vice President (OEM Division), a lot of funds were invested in the mobile market and the company would continue to do that as there were lots of competitors in this sphere.

It was estimated that smartphones that are considered to be high-powered mobiles that has computer facilities and big screens make up 10 per cent of the whole cellphone market in India.

The statistics says that about 130 million devices will be sold during 2009-2010, among which six million will be smartphones. From six million only 2.5 lakh phones operate with Microsoft’s operating system.

According to Guggenheimer, Microsoft has partnership with such mobile handset producers as Sony Ericsson, HTC, LG and Samsung except Nokia that run Symbian operating system.

Despite the fact that smartphones based on Microsoft Windows, appeared only for the past few years, the company competes with Nokia that uses Symbian OS and Blackberry

The competition became much harder when Apple mobiles and Google’s OS, Android and mailing device Blackberry were introduced in the market.

Tags: Google, Microsoft, Windows

Category: Business