Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer expressed disappointment at Windows Phone 7 sales during Microsoft’s financial analyst meeting Wednesday.
“We haven’t sold quite as many as I would have liked in the first year. … I’m not saying I love where we are, but I am very optimistic on where we can be,” Ballmer said.
The Windows Phone 7 platform was embraced by many of the world’s largest phone manufacturers, including Samsung and HTC, both of whom soon plan to launch devices based on the next version of WP7 or Mango.
However, these mobile giants have the majority of their chips invested in Google‘s Android — and that’s where most of their smartphone sales come from.
This leaves Microsoft with only one big and really dedicated WP7 partner — the stumbling Finnish giant Nokia. “With Nokia we have a dedicated hardware partner that is all-in on Windows Phones. They are not doing something on Android,” Ballmer said.
Nokia, however, has been losing market share as fast as you can spell Symbian, and in the quickly changing world of smartphones, one has to ask whether Nokia can regain its former glory on the wings of Microsoft’s platform.
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