The launch of the new Windows operating system it presented just a week ago cannot come soon enough for Microsoft.
The software giant lost significant ground in the OS pecking order in 2009, according to new statistics released on Tuesday, with Apple’s iPhone leapfrogging it into third place in the rankings.
The figures, produced by analyst firm Gartner, also showed a positive fourth quarter for the overall mobile devices market, with sales to end users growing by 8.3% on-year. Nokia remains dominant in handsets, despite losing more than two percentage points of share in 2009, while Asian vendors Samsung and LG continued to grow, but Motorola and Sony Ericsson turned in weaker performances.
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