Latest Comscore market share numbers for October shows big Windows Phone dip in USA

Posted November 30th, 2012, 11:11:05 . 0 Comments . Tags: comscore, usa, Windows Phone, windows phone 8 Via: WMPoweruser

Microsoft	Oct-11	Nov-11	Dec-11	Jan-11	Feb-12	March-12	April-12	May-12	Jun-12	Jul-12	Aug-12	Sept-12	Oct-12
US installed base	5.4	5.2	4.7	4.4	3.9	3.9	4.0	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.6	3.6	3.2
Percent loss	0.2	0.2	0.5	0.2	0.5	0	-0.1	0	0.2	0.2	0	0	-0.4

According to Comscore’s latest market share numbers, there has been a big dip in the number of Windows Mobile+Windows Phone owners in USA, with only 3.2% of subscribers using the two Microsoft mobile operating systems, down from 3.6% a month ago.

The number represents a loss of 410,000 users over a very short period, which seems somewhat unlikely, and leaves Windows Phone+Mobile with 3.88 million users in total in US.

Hopefully the dip will be reversed when November’s numbers are revealed, in the wake of the release of the popular Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X in USA in late October.

See the Comscore figures here.

Surface gets major product placement in latest episode of Suburgatory

Posted November 30th, 2012, 11:11:46 . 0 Comments . Tags: microsoft-news Via: WMPoweruser

Readers may recall an episode of Modern Family which rotated around acquiring an iPad. Microsoft appears to have purchased a similar level of marketing and product placement for the Microsoft Surface, which not only starred prominently in the show in multiple scenes,..