While many tech bloggers in the states mock and laugh at the status of Windows Phone in NA, Microsoft still managed to maintain twice its NA market share the much smaller European pond in 2014. IDC reported tat Windows Phone held 6.8% of the market share in Western Europe throughout 2014. Putting things in context, IDC estimated that 145.8 million smartphones were shipped in Western Europe in 2014; that's an increase of 6.4% year over year. Of those 145 million phones, Windows Phone shipped roughly around 9.9 million devices that are around 6.8% of that market. Now those numbers can seem a bit ambiguous to the Microsoft cynic, as they would also include the Nokia/Microsoft Project; Nokia X Android series of phones, but I think it's safe to say that of the 10 million shipped phones Microsoft claimed in their earnings earlier this year, very few were the X series.
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