Operating System SubVersion Usage

Microsoft kindly asks for the return of Lumia 920 running Windows Phone Blue
iTech Post / 6/11/13
To identify this new mysterious operating system, Wong took to Reddit. The Reddit community quickly dissected the screen images of Wong's phone, identifying it as Windows Phone Blue, a Microsoft prototype OS of the next major update to Windows Phone.

Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 screenshots leaked
The Mobile Indian / 6/10/13
Screenshots of the Windows Phone 8.1 update's early build tease the long awaited notification center for the mobile operating system. Microsoft has been working on the Windows Phone 8 successor update that is scheduled sometime later this year. ... Microsoft does need to make the Windows Phone platform more capable and equally competitive with the Apple iOS, Google Android and even the new BlackBerry 10 OS platform. Tags: MICROSOFT, WINDOWS PHONE 8, WINDOWS PHONE 8.1, BLUE, LUMIA 920, ...

Microsoft Wants Alleged Lumia 920 With Windows Phone 8.1 Back
Ubergizmo / 6/10/13
Over the weekend, someone who prefers to be known as 'ChinaMan28′ over on Reddit actually posted up screenshots of what seemed to be an early build of the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, where it showed off a bunch of new features such as a ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Just Threw A Zinger At Microsoft Windows
Business Insider Australia / 6/10/13
He also noted that Apple's last operating system, Mountain Lion, is far more popular with Mac users than Windows 8 has been with Windows users. Apple has sold 28 million copies of Mountain Lion, making it the best selling Mac OS of all time, he said with ...

New Market Study, "Mobile Operating System (OS): Market 2013-2018", Has ...
SBWire (press release) / 6/10/13
Modern mobile operating systems combine the features of a personal computer operating system with touch screen, cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS mobile navigation, camera, video camera, speech recognition, voice recorder, music player, near field ... The analyzes driving factors behind the evolution of the Mobile OS products including the improved User Interface (UI) of the new generation of smartphones, the introduction of new high speed mobile networks, and the emergence of usage based data pricing with ...

Microsoft Offers Early Look at New Windows 8.1 Features
Terra.com / 6/9/13
The tech giant is working on Windows 8.1, which it says will include updates that address many of the complaints it has received since Windows 8 was released last fall. Users were slow to adapt to the radical new operating system, frustrated over the lack of ...

Windows 8 Updates to 8.1 'Blue,' Microsoft Corp.: June release expected [VIDEO]
Design & Trend / 6/8/13
Had Windows Blue been a new OS, it would have been Windows fourth OS release in six years. The decision to name the operating system after a color, Blue, suggests that they may also be copying Apple's method of naming their own OS releases after wild ...

Adaptiva Bolsters Microsoft Windows Server Management
IT Business Edge / 6/8/13
With adoption of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 steadily increasing, there is a natural corresponding rise in the Microsoft System Center 2012 tools used to manage Windows servers. The challenge has been finding a way to cost-effectively adopt Microsoft ...

Android, Windows Mobile increase market share in France
Telecompaper (subscription) / 6/6/13
Android, Windows Mobile increase market share in France. Thursday 6 June 2013 | 10:53 CET | News. Android and Windows increased their share of the installed base of smartphone operating systems in France in the first quarter, according to data from a ComScore released by the Mobile Marketing Association France. The Google operating system had a 51.8 percent share of the installed base in the first quarter, compared to 49.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012. Apple's iOS saw its share dip slightly to 22 ...

iOS vs. Android Market Share in China: Google Mobile OS Easily Topples Apple ...
Latinos Post / 6/6/13
The iOS accounted for 25.1 percent of the market share. No other mobile operating system proved to be a threat against Android or iOS, as Microsoft's mobile platform Windows Phone narrowly defeated Symbian with 2.4 percent, enough for a third place finish. Symbian ... Unlike the previous market share reports Latinos Post observed by Kantar Worldpanel this week, the statistics for the three months ending in 2012 were unavailable for comparison. The smartphone operating system market share in China is a stark ...

Global Windows 8 Market Share Shockingly Low Among Enterprises
Field Technologies Online (press release) / 6/5/13
By comparison, six months after the official launch of Windows 7, IT Benchmark indicated that 11.3% of enterprise computers running Windows OS were running Windows 7, out of the 11.68% total market share (as reported by Net Applications.) “Statistics from Net Applications also showed in April 2013 that Windows 8 had a usage share of 3.84 percent, however, our IT Benchmark data demonstrates that the majority of Windows 8 implementations are by consumers and not by enterprises,” said Israel Lifshitz, ...

Windows Phone US Market Share Growth Outpaces Android
Network World / 6/4/13
While it is nice to see Windows market share increasing, the fact is if Microsoft's OS is really going to be considered successful it needs to be taking market share from Android and even Apple. Taking market share from fast sinking RIM (though RIMs stock has ...