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By Greg Mills

When one considers the potential for Microsoft to elbow their way into the smartphone market with their “late to the party” Mobile Vista 7, there are distinct categories of customers that have to buy it in significant numbers for the product to succeed. If we examine the smartphone market that exists today from the basis of a customer category analysis, the prospects are quite grim for Microsoft. Who is going to buy it?

By Greg Mills

In the extremely high stakes competition in smart phone operating systems, Microsoft’s new Mobile OS appears to be a stone loser. This is for a number of indisputable reasons.  

The expensive advertising program (rumored to be half a billion dollars) which will be launched soon, and the efforts of various hardware companies and cell phone carriers rallied to support Vista 7 are likely to be a doomed and completely wasted effort. This will certainly end Microsoft’s presence in the mobile market, which includes both smart phones and slate computers.  

By Greg Mills

Apple’s iPad has seen faster acceptance in the main stream of electronic devices than anything else so to date, including regular DVD players made by a lot of companies. So much for the predictions iPad wouldn’t sell — as made by other well known tech company CEOs.