Microsoft could rake in more than $1 billion in revenue in the first year after launching Office for Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms, an analyst said today.
Gerry Purdy, principal of MobileTrax, did a back-of-the-envelope calculation with several assumptions to arrive at the $1.25 billion, then added that with tablet shipments doubling this year, Microsoft could squeeze as much as $6 billion annually from mobile down the road.
"These are rough estimates," Purdy acknowledged in an interview today. "But this is an issue because the numbers are getting so big with the iPad and Android tablets that Microsoft can't continue to ignore it."
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