found this article http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/12/windows-phone-loving-shareholders-question-microsofts-mobile-strategy/
that I thought others would appreciate.
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Premium Member01 December, 2016 - 2:41 pm
<p>Shareholders should be happy that Microsoft is moving on from WP. What’s next, MS Bob loving shareholder considers selling share but forgot how?</p>
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<p>Why would they be happy? Developing mobile keeps Microsoft in the ARM game and it isn’t like it’s costing them much. </p>
<p>Pity no one asked Nudella about the MS browsers hemorrhaging users. It’s absolutely shocking for MS, Edge has gained less than 1% over the past six months while IE is simply withering on the vine… </p>
<p>So what about Internet Explorer and Edge? Internet Explorer continued its fall. The browser fell from a usage share of 43.82% in January 2016 to 21.66% in December 2016. ( Credit to GHacks )</p>
<p>The browser’s usage share halved in that time. While Microsoft may have hoped that its Edge browser would gain the bulk of the share, that is apparently not the case.</p>
<p>Edge continues to go nowhere this year. While it managed to jump from 3.07% to 5.21% this year, this is nothing to brag about considering that Microsoft is pushing the browser quite aggressively on Windows 10.</p>
<p>The past six months have been extremely telling, with Edge rising a mere 0.12% in that time.</p>
<p>StatCounter’s statistics tell a different story this time. The service recorded Internet Explorer’s usage share at 15.95% in January 2016, and at 9.66% in November 2016. That’s not even half of what Net Market Share recorded for the browser.</p>
<p>The situation is even more grim for Edge which StatCounter saw at 1.82% in January, and at 3.19% in November 2016.</p>