So the phone market have been pretty miserable for Microsoft. 6% is where Microsoft is and let me tell you it looks like it is getting smaller. So what could Microsoft do to get people interested in this? Well they could be putting Windows 8 into their phones in the coming future. There are some clues that this is exactly what Microsoft is planning to do. When I first saw the preview videos of Windows 8, with its touch and tile-based interface, people thought immediately of Windows Phone, which has a very similar looking interface. Instead of app icons, both use tiles which can display data and images from the underlying apps without opening them. The tiles themselves become a dashboard displaying the real-time data behind every app. This could be a step in the right direction for Microsoft. The fact that they are late to the party is a bad thing but could of been a great thing. They could really make sure they had top tier product by learning from the mistakes of Android and iPhone but yet they seem to sticking to the bottom, so they weren’t able to leverage anything. Maybe this Windows 8 speculation will give their phones more buzz and a change to get a bigger share of the market.
