Comscore's latest data: Bing's U.S. share grows and Windows Mobile's drops
Summary: Microsoft's Bing is now the source of 11.5 percent of all U.S. searches, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Windows Mobile's marketshare continued to plummet, according to comScore, and is now at 15.7 percent among U.S. smartphone subscribers.
The February comScore data is in, and Microsoft's share is up slightly again, while Yahoo's share continued to decline.
Microsoft's Bing is now the source of 11.5 percent of all U.S. searches, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. Yahoo is down to 16.8 percent, from 17 percent in January. Google is still the dominant No. 1, with 65.5 percent of U.S. searches for February, up from 65.4 percent the prior month.
Microsoft and Yahoo received antitrust clearance for their proposed partnership in February. Via that 10-year deal, Microsoft is going to be powering with Bing the Yahoo Web search results. I'm interested to see what happens to the Bing share numbers once that transition is accomplished; will the combined Microsoft-Yahoo share stay stagnant, decline or remain the same, compared with Google's share?
In addition to releasing monthly search-share results, comScore also announced its latest U.S. mobile-phone subscriber-marketshare numbers. Windows Mobile's share of the market continued to slide, yet the Microsoft smartphone OS (on all Windows Mobile phones from multiple vendors combined). Yet Microsoft still remained the No. 3 player, subscriber-wise, behind RIM and Apple for the three-month period between October 2009 and January 2010.
Microsoft was the biggest loser, share-wise, during that three-month period, dropping to 15.7 percent share, according to comScore. The biggest gainer was No. 4, Google, whose share rose to 7.1 percent, according to the comScore data released on March 10.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 partners aren't expected to begin shipping phones with Microsoft's new mobile OS until the fourth quarter of 2010. Microsoft officials have said that applications written for Windows 6.x phones won't run on Windows Phone 7 devices. It would seem Microsoft's share of the smartphone OS market is going to continue to take a nosedive for the next couple of quarters, at least, given those factors....
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That's no surprise
Like with the introduction of Windows 7, everyone will hold off until then.
Agreed. I prefer WM to Apple/Android and I still won't buy until WP7S
share artificially drop until 2011...
I will be leaving Windows Mobile for WebOS...
Good luck to you!
(Relatively speaking) nobody has any interest in Palm any longer - Android and iPhone currently have the largest volume of interest amongst consumers. RIM still has a unique device & service offering for businesses, but even that's going to struggle moving forward.
The dark horse here is Windows Phone 7 Series which is due to ship later this year and which is igniting some significant interest.
Next week is when all the device & dev platform details emerge at Mix2010: I'd hold off your purchase until you've at least seen what the plans are to ignite the developer community around WP7S.
Sure, Wait for WinMo7 VERSION 1.0 !!!!
Time to kill this. ALL OSes have problems with release 1.0. No exceptions..
How this has only been tagged to Microsoft is beyond reason, but it may have a lot to do with it's dominance and everyone expecting perfection from MS but not anyone else.
sorry but humans are fallible at every company.
A funny thing happened...
And what is Chrome's home page? And Safari's?
And Firefox' (Remembering that Google funds Firefox ... for now) [NT]
However...
I would be interested to know if the increase in Bing traffic corresponds to Windows 7 installs.
It's nice to be a monopoly! :-(
Not that simple.
Good point. It also proves MS doesn't have exclusivity with the OEMs. NT
I don't really think the "default" provider makes that big of a difference.
Average "Joes" install home networks all of the time these days and are no longer in the dark about PCs. The on/off switch is no longer a magic button that just makes the computer come to life and whatever comes up they use.
Nah, that's an age gone by.
realistically I would say that is maybe 5% of the using public here in 2010. That is is still a chunk, but it's a wash with the 100% that Apple and Google get.
And apple has monopoly status on ipod/phone/touch/pad content and it's revenue and has the lions share of *Windows* users content delivery due to itunes for Windows.
MS doesn't have a very active content delivery role on it's platform. Anyone can write code to it as it's open to anyone. Not so on Apple's most dominant platform. Apple decides who writes and what they write. Quite restrictive and monopoly like.
Google has essentially a monopoly on search and web advertising. They are so huge they have some level of control over internet bandwidth.
So, yes, it's nice to be a monopoly. Google actually is lucky MS is nearly a monopoly. they obvious are not a monopoly as defined in any dictionary where 100% control is required.
But Google would not have risen without that Windows infrastructure. Who else was poised to create it in the early 90s? Apple was still selling 2500.00 computers and their manufacturing output was not nearly sufficient to produce the numbers of machines the clones did. If IBM had retained control and clones never came into being, they would not have created the number of PCs worldwide either due to being expensive and like Apple, proprietary with their hardware.
Google loves the fact they are dominating the web, on top of Windows.
I think we can just throw out the old "monopoly" argument and start with a 2010 point of view.
I never had that happen
Was it a corporate copy? Maybe the original copy was bad, and kept reproducing the error?
Volume license...
WP7S is a gamble MS had to take. It could completely fail...
xbox Live if everything is right and the pricing is right could be a huge draw but I think MS has to consider how they sell the xbox service and make it as low cost as possible.
I don't have an xbox so I'm not sure of the service packages available but they'll need a "buy as you go" and limited plans for casual gamers and keep the unlimited package to an affordable price or it's a no go right now.
MS doesn't have the higher income customers as a base to rely on. This is totally new waters for MS.
I think the phone looks great. I hope it works as good as it looks.
Way to go Bing...look out Google.<br>
;)
I agree ... Phone XBox Zune Social Office = interesting
Can't wait to hear the details about the device capabilities, dev platform details, etc., that emerge from MIX2010 next week.
Me too....I'll be watching....but I fear..
But I fear pricing issues. Mr. Ballmer doesn't seem to understand that things that give short term gain or milking a system (as he admitted was the case with XP and promoted that school of thought at a U.S. University to business students) can also have the affect of losing customers. Short term loss seems preferable to longer term erosion of the customer base.
They just don't seem to get that simple principal, time and time again.
I realize being massive they have to pay attention to the desires of very large clients and partners and much of what happens is the best attempt at finding a sweet spot.
They are in the unfortunate position of needing to keep the old guard happy without neglecting the next generation.
Not so established companies, in terms of marketshare, such as Google and Apple (talking desktops as an example) can obviously take a more aggressive approach.
At the end of the day however it would seem MS has the employees and partners to meet multiple markets, but after many years I am resigned to the fact nothing earth shattering is going to come out of MS, even with world class R&D centers around the world.
I think what they have is very good, don't get me wrong.
Well I agree with you
platform, it will have more apps than iPhone in no matter of time
because of two reasons
1. It has good development platform than rest of the smartphones,
and we will know more about it during MIX10.
2. Every Silverlight and .NET Developer could easily develop their apps
enterprises can extend their business apps to .NET. The good thing is
it has full Exchange and Office Integration and Microsoft's hidden gem
SharePoint client is avialble in Office Mobile 2010 and I hope that
would be available for WP7S.
My 2 cents
--Ram--