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I almost had a hernia from laughing so hard when I read this in my newsreader this morning.  According to Symbian Freak, Microsoft wants to attain 40% market share of the smartphone market by 2012.  I’m sorry Microsoft, but you’re a loser in the mobile field.  Between the Apple iPhone, Nokia s60 devices (which currently hold 40% worldwide market share), RIM BlackBerrys, and upcoming Google Android devices, Microsoft Windows Mobile is a clear outsider in this market.

Personally, I have tried each of these platforms and Windows Mobile is the slowest, buggiest, and unstable mobile phone operating system in the current market.  Windows also does not have an eye in making a cohesive user experience.  This is a space Apple is winning hands down, currently.

If you disagree, I look forward to a lively discussion in the comments 

I just posted about Jive Software’s Clearspace product over at Web Worker Daily.

Basically, it’s a fantastic workspace collaboration tool that is focused on people, not word/excel/powerpoint documents like Microsoft’s SharePoint.

It’s been said in the blogosphwere that Jive wants to be the Apple Computer of the collaboration space and ClearSpace 2.0 is putting them in that realm.  Great work, Jive!

Cisco conjured up $3.2 billion in an offer to buy WebEx. For those of you who don’t know what WebEx is, it’s an online meeting place that allows for desktop sharing. Typically it’s used by businesses to hold online meetings and share PowerPoint slides. Its amazing technology.

On another note - Microsoft is making inroads into this space, both online meeting hosting and Enterprise VoIP. Their new product - Office Live Server is a competing product to Cisco’s CallManager product. At my work, we chose Cisco as a VoIP provider, but Microsoft’s offerings are treading close to Cisco’s. Want to have voicemail in your Outlook inbox? Well now you can choose between Cisco and Microsoft solutions….veeeerrrryyyyy interesting.

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