Speaking of Windows phones and Nokia, let's see how that is progressing.
Month before last it was all sorts of grim .....
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/technology/nokia-posts-loss-as-smartphone-s...Then the Win8 phones came out and
actually began to sell as all the Microsoft advertising dollars began to pull in the upgraders as their contract phone came due for replacement.
(Microsoft has spent more in Win8 TV advertising for tablets and for phones that the Win8 Surface and Phone product profits sold to date would have paid for in total)
Then Nokia hit the wall as they could not supply the phones needed to support even the modest 2.5 million sales opportunities that they had in the November time frame. Nokia is the only one making a Windows8 phone right now and they are not in adequate shape to swing up with any large production numbers after losing money so strongly for the last whole year.
http://www.gsmarena.com/the_lumia_920_may_have_reached_25m_orders_worldwide-n...To put things in perspective, during the entire introduction month Nokia has moved less than 3 million Windows8 phones world wide. This is after Microsoft dumped millions into TV promotion for surface and windows phone.
APPLE spent zip on advertising during their IPhone 5 intro month and moved over 5 million phones in the first week alone. Total sales for the first 2 months are in the 15-17 million range supposedly.
Google did spend some money on TV ads for "The Play Store is Open" and they racked up a total sell out of both Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 inside the first day. They got restocked by Samsung and LG and got sold out again in four days.
Total of phones still on backorder exceed 10 million after the first two full production runs were snapped up. A third LG Nexus 4 production run is expected "soon" but is already completely pre-sold (it is mostly going to the carriers first anyway).
On the tablet side of things, Amazon and Barnes & Noble have outsold Microsoft as well.
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http://www.zdnet.com/three-days-in-the-life-of-a-once-and-former-microsoft-su...Everyone told them this was going to happen, but MS went and did it anyway. Surface open box unit returns rate is "relatively large" .....
People had paid an extra $300 more for a Windows tablet from the Windows company (Microsoft) but the durn thing won't even run my Windows programs. And I can't even get it to talk to me. Here, take this durn thing back and gimme my money back.
What? Read my warranty, no returns on opened units ??!!??
.... MS got called on this and lawsuits threatened for misleading advertising and unfair returns policy
Wow, these things grow back every time we screw up again .....
Where's Sinofsky? Get his arse out there.... what do you mean we fired him already, we NEED him to hang him up again for these guys to beat on with the pinata sticks and then set fire to. And leave some firewood stacked up outside for the mobs too, those broken up desks and chairs are too expensive to keep on replacing.http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-says-returns-okay-on-opened-surface-rt-product...The main problem MS has in the phone world is they keep acting like MS, King of Computerdom, instead of like a real "dirt under the fingernails" competitor.
They are not considered even highborn in the phone/tablet world right now, heck, right now they have proven again that they aren't even really a competitor at all, really. Nokia is flat being driven into the ground as the one and only exclusive MS phone partner ....
And with their low speed to market and repeated fumbles, MS will only fall further and further behind as time and the phone world endlessly evolves.
Plus, The Bald Ballmer is spending too much of his time in the bathroom trying to cut his ever self replacing horns off. 
Hey, I said we will fix it --- we will call it Widows RT PRO and you will be able to use regular Windows programs (that meet the RT PRO requirements) and we will only charge you $899 for a surface tablet with the good software ..... yeah, about a year from now I think, that sounds good to me.
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