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Windows Home, UWP at risk as Microsoft steps out of consumer phone market.


Does the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and, ultimately, Windows Home have a future now that Microsoft are stopping development work on consumer phones? I think there’s a domino effect about to happen over the next 24 months that will see the consumer laptop market turn away from Windows Home and I don’t see a way that anyone can stop it. UWP is then left spreading awkwardly across gaming (Xbox) and business (PCs.)  UWP is at risk. Continuum too. Standing on the sideline is Chrome OS and the Google Play Store. I think it really is time-up for Windows in the consumer space.

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Windows 8 Store Market Share. 1% Seems Right.


This is all Microsoft had to say about ‘Windows Momentum’ last week. (See image.)

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…so I did some digging and calculations. Here are some figures that might help ISVs more than the useless figures given by Microsoft.

  • Windows 8 Store has 1% share of US app-purchases
  • Windows 8 Store has 1.4% share of global app-downloads
  • Windows 8 has 0.5% share of the global internet app-devices market.

A 1% share of revenue would give a value of around $250 million for the global Windows 8 Store economy.

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