Ballmer: Windows Phones aren’t selling okay, but we aren’t worried

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was his usual frank self when he met financial analysts yesterday, admitting that the sector isn’t yet as excited about Windows Phone as he’d hoped. To be precise, AllThingsD reported him as saying: “We have not sold quite as many as i’d have liked inside the first year.” His cunning plan? Well, that’s easy: make all of it Nokia’s problem. Or, as he put it: “With Nokia we’ve a dedicated hardware partner it truly is all-in on Windows Phones.” Indeed, the Finnish manufacturer has now staked way over Microsoft at the success of this “third ecosystem” and, if its imminent Mango handsets fail to show things around, we may eventually see Stephen Elop standing behind that silent cash register.

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