New data paints a bleak picture for the Windows Phone's future

It's not looking good for Microsoft.

The company's Windows Phone platform only had a 1.7% market share in the third quarter of 2015, a steep drop from the 3% market share in the same period last year, according to new data from research company Gartner.

While that's far from negligible — 5.9 million Windows Phone units were shipped in the quarter — there are several reasons why this is bad news for Microsoft. The Windows Phone platform's fall is actually accelerating; it lost 0.8% market share in the last quarter alone. Microsoft also said it sold 5.8 million Lumia phones in the third quarter, meaning other manufacturers have all but given up on the platform Read more...