IDC’s latest report on global smartphone shipments noted that not only did Windows Phone’s market share shrink from Q2 2013 to Q2 2014, but its overall shipment numbers shrank as well.

That’s 7.4 million Windows Phones shipped in Q2 this year, a 9.4% decline from the 8.2 million Windows Phones that shipped during the same period last year.

So is this doom and gloom. Hardly, but it is a warning sign. First up Windows does have a decent operating system that is still installed on a vast number businesses and personal pc’s. Second, it is just going through a major restructuring following their Nokia acquisition and this will take a little while longer to start to bear some fruit.

Another factor in these figures, is that all smartphone companies like Apple and Samsung are seeing a slow down as the market is now saturated and there is still an economic downturn.

Microsoft still has an eco system but it does need to use it to its best advantage soon, otherwise, the competition will advance further forward. Even Amazon could end up with higher sales than Microsoft!

Source – IDC – http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25037214