Microsoft plans to release Windows Phone 7, its revamped smartphone operating system, at the end of 2010. However, that will bring it into direct confrontation with iPhone OS 4, which boasts new features such as multitasking, as well as Google Android 2.2 and possibly 2.3. Whether Microsoft can succeed against such heavy competition is dependent on a number of factors; but Windows Phone 7 will also enter the fray with key disadvantages, such as initial lack of support for Flash. Sales of Microsoft’s Kin phones could be an indicator of the company’s mobile consumer appeal. – Microsoft plans on releasing Windows Phone 7, touted as a complete revamp of
its smartphone operating system, sometime near the end of 2010. Its
introduction is an attempt to reverse several quarters of market-share slide in
the face of fierce competition from Apple’s iPhone and Google Android ph…