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Yeah I think bill was referring to our strategy from the you know early 2000s which is you know a million years ago in terms of the mobile mobile business now the market has changed tremendously and I think one of the silver lining of this is for us is that we kind of reappropriation a Stephen Elop and he is a big champion and defender of windows mobile but when are we going to see windows mobile really fight back and push hard against Google Android well I think we’re seeing it right now Windows Phone 8 launched in the fall of last year and one of the things that we’ve seen since then is a as a real market increase in the in the sales and the interest we see three times as many people walking into retail stores asking for Windows Phone and four times as many folks walking out having bought it so we’re seeing a tremendous momentum across the world for the platform and I so Stephens the excitement is certainly warranted I just talked to the head of Mozilla Firefox and they made the announcement the Firefox open source operating system from mobile and ancestor going to be released pretty soon what is a Microsoft’s feeling about the open-source threat in the mobile space well I think it’s a demonstration that this is a very dynamic and competitive industry we also think that there are some some real requirements now when people choose a smartphone today they don’t think about it in isolation they think about how it’ll work with the rest of the devices they own the tablet the pc the servers at work and how can i get work done even gaming will it work with my TV in my game console so they think about this as a part of a range of things that need to work together that’s one of the strengths of Windows Phone is that all of the stuff you care about flows across those devices and and kind of comes to you in a way that no other platform does so I think those requirements will be increasingly important going forward but it certainly is a competitive space to be in it’s about affordable smartphones microsoft recently partnered with huawei to develop smart devices for africa tell me about it well it’s a really exciting initiative one of the great things about our platform is that we focused on is is enabling our software to perform very very well even on more affordable phones which is not something that’s necessarily true of our competitors on a less expensive phone has a not as satisfying experience with Windows Phone you have the full experience the live tiles all the apps on the phone that’s more affordable so we’re working with Huawei and other partners to really create an ecosystem that will spur development of an immobilizing applications great content that’s designed for Africa so this is a really exciting initiative for us hallway is a big Chinese manufacturing brand they’re a partner of Microsoft Windows Mobile a parting with them and other handset makers in China are you going to get a significant slice of the market share in the world’s biggest smartphone market we certainly expect to in fact we’re already seeing strong signs that that is happening one of the things that we did about a year ago is is to enable some of the networking technology required in China and our OEM partners had been built very compelling devices the Nokia Lumia 620 is doing very very well so you’ll continue to see our our platform and our great hardware partners again deliver on those experiences that that are very high performance even on a phone that’s affordable so we’re seeing great success there as well okay and Microsoft in mobile what’s the endgame for you do you want to get first place again well that’s always the goal and I think we’re we’ve shown that we have a patient’s to build the critical mass of a platform before whether it’s enterprise software or gaming platforms and in mobile we’re certainly on the right path in this and the current trend is very very positive and impressive one of the things that is going to become increasingly important though is this notion that mobile is not in isolation it’s part of the broader set of technologies that we use to get our jobs done to stay in touch with our friends and family or to learn and have fun and they need to work together and so you’ll see us continue to invest and having the stuff that you care about show up on the device that you happen to be in front of without you having to do anything so we’ve got some real advantages there and I think continue to improve those
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