Tag: 2014
IDC: PC shipments grow in EMEA (Q2) after seven quarters of decline
IDC's latest report puts PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at 21.9 million units in the Q2, 2014, which marks a 10.5% increase year on year. This growth comes after...
Nokia regained 5th smartphone vendor rank (India) in Q1 2014
Latest IDC report for Q1 2014 brings good news for Nokia / Microsoft from India. Nokia has regained 5th smartphone vendor rank in India with just 4% market share. The market share may not...
Q1 2014: Windows Phone grew by 61.3% QoQ and 361% YoY in Vietnam
A report from IDC reveals the smartphone market share details for Vietnam market. It is really good news for Windows Phone all the way!! While we have earlier reported Windows Phone enjoying as high...
IDC: 43.3 mn Windows Phone may be shipped in 2014, 65.9 mn in 2015....
IDC has released its smartphone sales volume predictions for the period of 2014-2018. They predict Windows Phone sales volume of 43.3 million units in 2014. With Q1 volume estimated to be close to 8...
Nokia mobile phone & smartphone sales see decline in Q1 2014.
Since Nokia's Devices and services division already belongs to Microsoft now, so here you go with the Q1 2014 results for the division. Things don't look rosy and both mobile phones and smartphones vloumes...
Windows 8.1 Escrow RTM Build leaks now. RTM sign-off may happen very soon.
WZor, who has been instrumental in bringing Windows leaks has posted about the RTM build leak on Twitter. According to him, this leaked 9600.17019.WINBLUE_GDR.140205-2003 build is Escrow RTM Build and he expects a sign-off...
Sony confirms Windows Phone smartphone launch in 2014.
Microsoft has reportedly been in talks with Sony to bring a Windows Phone smartphone bearing "Vaio" branding by mid-2014. Reports also claimed that Microsoft can cut down on or completely waive off the licensing...
Microsoft provides list of upcoming Xbox games in 2014.
In an article over Xbox Wire, Microsoft has provided a list of upcoming Xbox games which will hit the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles in 2014. The upcoming year will bring a wide variety...
Canalys predicts 5% Tablet market share for MS in 2014 (Out of 285 million...
Canalys predicts that in 2014, Tablets will make 50% of PC shipments. This will amount to 285 million global Tablet shipments. Interestingly they predict big growth in Microsoft's market share from 2% of global...