They say Windows Phone is dead and the figures provided by Microsoft for the latest fiscal quarter made everyone believe it. Windows Phone revenues dropped 49 percent during the quarter, Redmond revealed, despite the work on Windows 10 Mobile.



But if you want to find out whether Windows Phone is still alive or not, the answer pretty much depends on whom you ask. Because analysts, research firm, and figures provided by third parties show pretty contradictory statistics.
StatCounter data for the last 12 months show that Windows Phone has barely lost users in the last year, as Microsoft’s mobile operating system had what seems to be very steady performance.
Back in February 2015, Windows Phone was at 2.27 percent worldwide, whereas in 12 months later, the platform dropped to 2.1 percent. The difference is clearly insignificant and a drop of 0.17 percent can hardly be called “the demise” of the operating system.
No big drop, but only steady performance Furthermore, the chart shows that Windows Phone experienced no big drop in the last year, so while some users indeed got tired of waiting for Windows 10 Mobile and decided to jump ship, many returned to try out insider preview builds.
As for non-Windows platforms, it’s very clear that Android is still the king, and this chart shows that it even managed to improve in the last 12 months. In February 2015, Android was powering 60.79 percent of the smartphones in the world, improving to 66.38 percent 12 months later.
Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, dropped from 23.17 percent in February 2015 to 19.47 percent in the same month this year. A bigger decline was registered in October 2015, when the platform fell to 17.7 percent.
Windows Phone’s market share, on the other hand, is expected to increase in the coming months, as the arrival of Windows 10 Mobile is now said to be just around the corner. But with Microsoft keeping everything secret for the moment, it’s nearly impossible to tell how far this corner actually is.