Raising: market researchers forecast the second place in the smartphone segment for Microsoft

The coalition with the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, is to help Microsoft to come on the second place among the smartphone platforms. By the year 2015, the Windows operating system to can keep even a 20.9 percent market share, which Microsoft would overtake Apple's iPhone and the BlackBerry Smartphones from RIM. The findings come from the market research firm IDC. The forecasts of the market research institute come from Tuesday, the 29.3.2011.

Top dog to be still Google platform Android, whose Marktanteil is expected to increase by 39, 5n to 45.4 per cent by the year 2015. The Smartphone market is currently thorough the boom which is noticeable from the sales figures. The market research company IDC had said an increase in sales volume of nearly 50 percent, thus 450 million units sold. When Microsoft launched his new mobile operating system Windows phone 7 on the market in autumn 2010, came the operating system together with the compatible smartphones, on a market share of over three percent. In February 2011, however, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturers Nokia alongside Microsoft went in an Alliance. Nokia is to especially thus set on Windows phone 7 smartphones as on own platform called Symbian. She will however bring consequences for Nokia itself, because thereby the market share of Symbian shall be until 2015 only 0.2 percent, so not the speech worth.

For Apple and BlackBerry maker RIM, however, the researchers predict a solid position in the Smartphone market. So the market share of California company Apple by 15.7% to 15.3% to go back and for RIM, a decline was predicted by 14.9% to 13.7%. Both producers would have to lose out in the race against Nokia/Microsoft.
The Finnish carrier Nokia has long dominated the Smartphone market with the in-house operating system Symbian. However, Android is launched within a few months to the top. The top guide position of Google's Android open operating system concluded numerous using various manufacturers, who have opted for Google's platform.