By Will Sturgeon, 23 November 2001 12:25
NEWS If anybody had hoped the incessant rise of Microsoft might be slowed by recent court cases, it seems there is only more disappointment in store, with research house Nomura tipping the Seattle giant for domination in the mobile phone sector too. Nomura believes the battle lines are being drawn out now with Microsoft in one trench and the allied forces of the mobile phone sector in the other. On 16 November AT&T Wireless, DoCoMo, Motorola, mmO2 (formerly BT Cellnet), Nokia, Sony/Ericsson and Vodafone announced plans to develop an open software and services market for future generations of mobile phones. Microsoft was the only notable absentee from the coalition but Nomura believes the success Microsoft has had in the past ploughing a lone, but large, furrow will again manifest itself in this new field. The key battle zone will be Microsoft's .Net strategy, which the research house predicts will provide the standard for the delivery of wireless web services. Microsoft is investing $5.2bn into .Net and will not allow it fail. As such, Nomura predicts Microsoft will win the battle to find favour with developers and says the mobile phone market will soon begin to resemble the PC market with one Microsoft-born operating system enjoying domination, over the offerings from industry alliances such as Symbian.
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