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There is no place for Microsoft in the future of mobile phones - according to BBC August 31, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R. Everybody knows that BBC - a public service broadcaster paid by taxes of UK residents - has a left wing-bias. Some people, including British prime minister Tony Blair, even say: anti-American bias. Today we can add: BBC has also anti-Microsoft, anti- Windows Mobile bias... USA is the biggest consumer market in the world and the biggest economy in the world. In USA Symbian's market share in smartphone market is small - smaller than Windows Mobile and Palm OS, but BBC in a TV programme about future of mobile phones written by Paul Mason is not mentioning Microsoft at all! Instead BBC is talking with Symbian, claiming that it has 80% market share in smartphones: 
Symbian is located in London so it was easy for BBC to visit it obviously. However Microsoft UK is located in Reading near London and HTC Europe is located in Slough - even closer to London. So in reality lack of Microsoft in this TV programme can be explained only by BBC's anti-Microsoft bias, that is also visible in preference of BBC to use formats of RealNetworks for Internet streaming (instead of using both RealAudio/RealVideo from RealNetworks and Windows Media from Microsoft). On the other hand, maybe Microsoft should try harder in UK (BBC has global influence, not just UK-limited)? After all blog of Jason Langridge from Microsoft UK, although being excellent source of information for end users of Windows Mobile phones, clearly is not enough (it's just his hobby activity after all)! Blogs about Windows Mobile from employees of Microsoft USA are useless for huge majority of end users because they are focused on developers only. Speaking of UK, for example: we haven't seen any advertisements about Windows Mobile phones in UK recently - neither in London's metro train system, nor in British press about mobile phones. Microsoft cannot fight Symbian with Symbian's means - using synergy effects of big-name manufacturers, that don't even advertise phones as Symbian smarpthones in most adverts. Microsoft must find its own way - in order to be more visible in the future of mobile phones. Sometimes mimicking competition is not the way to defeat it. Sometimes blaming failure on others is the worst possibility, so Microsoft must intensify efforts - after 4 years of Microsoft's presence in mobile phone market, Symbian - a puppet of Nokia - still is dominating (globally). Maybe Microsoft should invite Paul Mason from BBC to Mobius conference, instead of inviting there just yes-sayers and preaching to the converted? Related links:
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