OS Turf Wars Move to Mobile

“Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the
Redmond enterprise OS maker you can’t deny: It’s very, very big,
and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around. It may not
be as big as Apple, at least in terms of market capitalization, but
it does have the enormous resources required to do something that
Steve Jobs’ company has proved itself simply incapable of: Work on
a mobile OS without neglecting its line of server and desktop
enterprise operating systems.

“To prove the point, late last week Microsoft announced that
Windows Phone 7, its brand new mobile enterprise operating system,
is as ready as its going to get, and it has been released to
manufacturing.

“It’s an important moment for the company, despite being in a
strong position in the enterprise OS market in the data center and
in an overwhelmingly dominant position in the corporate desktop OS
market. That’s because the huge growth market, and arguably the
most important battleground for enterprise operating systems right
now, is the mobile arena”

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