The pressure on the forthcoming Windows 7 Phone to offer a breakthrough for Microsoft mobile mounted, the company showed a decline in sales of its current operating system smartphone, Windows Mobile. Sales of its Zune media players also missed its third fiscal quarter, justifying the decision to extend the Zune platform for devices that are not specific, especially the new phones Kin.

Under the announcement of the third quarter, Microsoft reported revenues of its mobile entertainment division – with the exception of the platform Xbox – has been reduced by $ 80 million. Windows Mobile has lost more than 20% of their market share of smartphones in the past four months, according to estimates from comScore, the predator with Android. United States – The best market for both operating systems due to weak market leader Symbian – WinMo study says only 15.1%, while Android has doubled its share of one year, at 9 %, and is sure to touch double digit very soon.

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division is minor in society as a whole, with only the online services is smaller. Its sales were $ 1.67bn for the quarter ended March 31, 11.5% of the total group of 14.5 billion dollars. In profit terms, it has been an even smaller contributor, though this quarter did see the unit reversing last year’s $67m loss and making a profit of $138m, with Xbox the biggest driver. Microsoft’s total profit for the period was $4.01bn. A year ago it made $2.97bn on sales of $13.65bn.