“Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it sold more than 2 million units of its new Windows Phone 7 software to handset makers last quarter, as it looks to counter Apple Inc’s iPhone,” Bill Rigby reports for Reuters.
MacDailyNews Take: To clarify, those weren’t 2 million “sales” of Windows Phone ’07 units to end sufferers, they were simply 2 million licenses to Microsoft’s handset “partners” such as HTC, LG, and (bah!) Dell.
Rigby continues, “Apple said last week 16.2 million iPhones were sold in the last quarter. Microsoft is set to report quarterly earnings on Thursday.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Anything to hold on to his title as CEO.
Microsoft is praying the courts bring the hammer down on Android…
——RM
I have not heard any news of beleaguered Dell since the Streak was slapped down by consumers. Are they still in business?
And, we know that at least 1M and more likely 1.5M were just to fill the channel. Actual sellthru might have been as low as 500k.
2 Millions License and 1.999 Million Phones sitting unsold on store shelves form the release date of Windows Phone 7, does not compete with 16.2 Million iPhones sold last quarter.
MDN Word “dead”, as in Ballmer is a dead CEO walking
Only nine more quarters to go till they get back to 2007 levels of WinMo license sales.
In other words,
1,800,000 windows mobile 7 phones still on the shelves at retailers.
And wasn’t it like 100k+ ms crap 7 phones were given to employees?
So less than 100k phones actually sold in the world.
The supply channels had been purged of Windows Mobile 6.5 devices so 2 million will be restocking, lets see what the next quarters numbers are. Given that Amazon had to resort to selling Windows 7 phones for $0.01 it doesn’t look promising. Anyone know how many WinMo devices they sold in the same quarter of 2009?
What is this? The MDN puppet show?
Anyone here with an original idea at all?
Or will we just spew the same old crap that the little boy who runs this site feeds us?
@howdy!
Well…could you give us an example of “an original idea”?
2 million licenses sold to partners doesn’t say anything about how many phones have even been produced yet. I’m sure not a single one of microsoft’s partners has produced enough Windows Phone ’07 handsets to use up all the licenses they bought from Microsoft.
@howdy: Sorry you’re hurting so bad.
This is pure entertainment. The world would be disappointed if Microsoft didn’t trot out their tired old numbers tricks to try and convince themselves they are not sliding backwards so fast.
Troubling for them must be they know WP7’s failure must presage the decline of W7 – without the whole ecosystem, stagnation turns to decay.
We went through all this with the zune. Almost all of their “sales” with that device turned out to be sent to warehouses, store shelves, convention and conference give-aways, etc.
In tomorrow’s report, expect a lot of mystery regarding the vintage and divisional sources of earnings.
I’ll bet that those initial licenses were sold at “introductory special” prices too.