International Herald Tribune
04-05-2006
Microsoft is set to announce its biggest-ever contract for mobile phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets. Scott Horn, a Microsoft executive, said in an interview Monday that the company would announce the deal this week. A Microsoft senior vice president, Pieter Knook, said that sales of handsets with Windows-based software would double to 20 million units in 2007 as corporate customers opt for those devices instead of BlackBerry devices sold by the Canadian company Research In Motion. Microsoft expects to increase its mobile unit's sales to $1 billion in one to three years, from $337 million last year The company declined to disclose the value of the Census Bureau contract for Windows Mobile phones, which can link to the Internet, run Office, read e-mail and play music. Census takers will use them for collecting information door-to-door in the 2010 U.S. census.
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