Microsoft is poised to make a move into mobile computing in a big way, according to Dan Briody. The Pocket PC steadily gains in market share, the Smartphone OS has room to grow, there’s a mobile gaming angle, and the Redmond giant has an established practice of incrementally taking over markets in the long term.
But many phone manufactures have very publicly shunned the Microsoft OS. Sendo recently withdrew its plans to use the Microsoft platform. Samsung just last month became an investor in Symbian. And Motorola, in addition to being a founding member of Symbian, has chosen develop its own OS around Linux. Nobody said this would be easy, even for Microsoft.
