Bill Gates declared for the New York Times that he doesn’t believe Google can really challenge Microsoft’s share of the market, referring to mobile phone software. They say Microsoft now has ten percent of the market so it really is going to be hard for Google to match, much less overtake such a strong showing.

“How many products, of all the Google products that have been introduced, how many of them are profit-making products? They’ve introduced about 30 different products; they have one profit-making product. So you’re now making a prediction without ever seeing the software that they’re going to have the world’s best phone and it’s going to be free?”

All that might as well be true, but the way I see it Microsoft should not boast about profit from entertainment. Just take a look at how well Xbox sales are going. Nevertheless Google has some hard work to do if it wants to be a top dog in this market.