Microsoft(TM) has been one of the companies driving the
digital age, making the internet and digital entertainment accessible to the
masses and improving enterprise productivity. Having expanded its business
operations into the mobile telecoms industry, hoping to take a foothold here
too, how is the software behemoth progressing in an industry that has showed
resistance to it?
After many years developing and pushing its Operating System onto handsets,
Microsoft is still gaining relatively slow increases in market share, losing out
to Symbian(TM), which dominates the Smartphone market.
However, Microsoft has a major advantage over Symbian – convergence of digital
devices in the home and in the enterprise.
What is Microsoft’s overall strategic vision for the future? Where does
mobile technology fit into this? Will its Unified Communications strategy place
handsets at the centre of the converged world? Or do they simply become tools to
access UC and other internet-enabled services at anytime, from anywhere? Is
Microsoft even bothered about its mobile Operating System now, or is it
focussing on Software as Services for the future? All these answers and more can
be found in the new visiongain report, Microsoft in Mobile: Market analysis and
forecasts 2007-2012.
Since entering the mobile handset market, bypassing the likes of Nokia and
targeting operators directly with reference designs, the dynamics have changed.
Microsoft is no longer seen as the outsider, but will its future strategies and
market dynamics alienate it from its old partners? Who are its fiercest rivals
in each of its business sectors?
With analysis of the major competitive players in the market, this strategic
analysis will guide you through the future prospects for Microsoft.
Strategically focussed, this 90+ page report begins with an analysis of
Microsoft's internal restructuring, what this means and how it helps the company
move forward in the mobile industry. It continues with an overview of wireless
industry trends, particularly the growth in data services, and assesses how
Microsoft has performed recently in the market, and with forecasts on how well
shipments of its operating system will perform in the future
There is an extensive analysis of Microsoft's offerings in four competitive
mobile market segments- Operating Systems (OS), Devices, Application and
Services. This includes comparisons with the company's main competitors in the
four segments.
Despite the competition its faces, Microsoft has significant financial clout
and brand familiarity to extend its control of the desktop experience to the
mobile space and significantly impact the wireless
landscape.