Andy Fox (Andy Lees), vice president of Mobile Communications Business Unit of Microsoft, gave an interview to the resource profile the unwired. In this interview, Andy Fox noted that of all items sold 1.2 billion for the year of mobile phones, 12 percent were smartphones, providing Internet access and work with e-mail. The representative of Microsoft, growth potential from this market segment is very high, and the company is going to take a solid share of the market.

According to the sales for the first quarter of 2008 total in the world were sold 4.4 million smartphones based on operating system Windows Mobile, which is 1.8 million more than the same figure a year earlier. For example, Fox led Apple iPhone sales figure for the same period, which amounted to 1.7 million. The truth in this example, it is not yet take into account the sharp increase in sales after the release of iPhone 3G. It should be noted that Microsoft today is in second place after the Symbian OS for smartphones.