Microsoft COO Kevin Turner acknowledged today that his company's operating systems power only a small fraction of all devices worldwide.



From Computerworld:

"The reality is the world's shifted, the world's evolved," Turner said in a presentation today at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which runs through Thursday in Washington, D.C. "We now measure ourselves in the total device space. And in the total device space we have a 14% share of devices, total worldwide devices."

Turner's 14% came from a new forecast released last week by Gartner, which estimated Windows' share of the shipped device market last year was 14%, and would decrease slightly to 13.7% in 2014.

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