It’s perhaps still a bit early to call Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system an out and out success, but Windows Phone 7 has certainly come out of the gate strong. The earliest sign of the OS’s warm reception? The HTC HD7 has been selling out. Good news on that front, however–the handset will likely be in stock again the week.
Heck, the whole thing is good news for Microsoft–much-needed news, in fact. The company has suffered a huge loss of market share in the space, thanks to both stagnation on its part and the runaway success of more recent entrants like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
According to predictions by tech analyst firm Gartner, Microsoft is set to increase its market share in the space from 4.7- to 5.2-percent next year–though the firm does expect things to sink down quite a bit in the following years. According to the firm’s predictions, Microsoft will be at around 3.9-percent by 2014.
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