IDC’s (re-released and rehashed) prediction of Windows’ ascent within the mobile (OS) space to the second spot (behind Android and ahead of Apple) is either: a) profoundly insightful (due to clairvoyance and/or simply being able to predict the future); and/or b) completely off and not even close to being plausible.
Whatever the end result; it’s still hard to see how anyone would want a Microsoft-based handset… whereas even coveting a Nokia handset (at this juncture) is in reality just not the case (but this is a bit less hard to fathom than what Redmond has their designs on)…
Long story short: a lot can change within this space (as evidenced by what Apple did just 4 short years ago now). And, A LOT is going to have to change for an alliance of two (also-ran) partners to overtake either Google and/or Apple.
From PC World: http://bit.ly/ilvE0O