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Microsoft Says Windows Phone Will Pass Apple in China
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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. in China’s smartphone market as its partners release devices costing as little as $158.
Passing Apple is an “interim goal” as the company’s longer-term objective is to supplant Google Inc.’s Android as the local market leader, Simon Leung, Microsoft’s chairman and chief executive officer for the Greater China region, told reporters in Beijing today. He didn’t give a time frame for reaching the targets.