10 years ago, the smart phone market in Apple, Millet and other brands driven, into the dividend blue ocean stage, manufacturers have entered the game to share a piece of the pie, has been deeply rooted in the desktop system Microsoft also wants to participate, but and other mobile phone manufacturers are different, Microsoft as a giant in the PC field, it wants to be with Apple iOS, Google Android equal position, but unfortunately the timing is a little late, and finally can only be forced to hastily end.
In the eyes of the outside world, Apple's iOS and Google's Android have become a very mature two major mobile operating system camp, iOS as a closed source system, the unity of the overall ecology is favored by users, the ecological barrier is very strong, and the Android system is open source, but thanks to the use of Android system mobile phone manufacturers, market users have long been educated to be very familiar with the operation of Android mobile phones, At this time, it is not an easy task for other operating systems to make users change their habits and experiences again.
Originally, Microsoft was considered to be the most likely to be on the same level as iOS, Android and called the "three major mobile terminal systems" manufacturers, but with the withdrawal of Microsoft, many people thought that Microsoft was completely dead hearted, but the follow-up of Microsoft's series of operations let us see that Microsoft did not have a dead heart for the mobile terminal market, for example, Microsoft began to launch small-size folding products - Surface Duo when releasing surface series products. And this product is equipped with Google's Android system, which also makes many people understand Microsoft's new direction - cooperation with Google to enter the mobile market.
If it is only this one product, it may not be enough to explain anything, but in October 2021 after a year, Microsoft brought the surface Duo iteration model - Surface Duo2, to continue to pre-install android systems, and at the same time in June 2021, the newly released PC-side operating system - Windows 11, Microsoft added a highlight feature that attracted much attention. That is, users can run Android programs in Windows 11, although this feature has not yet been updated in the official version of the system, but this feature is also real, because Beta Channel users can already get this feature update used.
This series of operations proves that Microsoft originally withdrew from the mobile operating system market with iOS and Android, and chose to enter the mobile market in a cooperative manner, thus achieving a win-win situation for Microsoft and Google. According to Microsoft's official data, the number of active devices using Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems has exceeded 1.4 billion, and the number of active devices in the world of the Android system in 2021 exceeds 3 billion units, although the two figures look relatively different, but Windows can still be called the world's third largest operating system, after all, now with the cooperation of smart phones, tablets, PCs and computers, Desktop and mobile systems are also evolving in parallel.
The reason why Windows is the "third largest operating system in the world" is because Apple has recently announced that the number of active devices has exceeded 1.8 billion, which naturally includes iPhones and iPads, but also includes products such as iMac, Macbook, and even Apple Watch.
At present, the entire operating system market mainly has Apple, Google and Microsoft three manufacturers, such a situation will not change in the short term, but there is another noteworthy brand in the future - Huawei, Huawei launched the Hongmeng system applied to smart phones, by the end of 2021, there have been more than 220 million Huawei mobile phones upgraded to the Hongmeng system, and more than 100 million Huawei smart ecological products also have built-in Hongmeng system.
Huawei in order to promote the popularization of The Hongmeng system, but also promised that very early old models can upgrade the Hongmeng system, according to the stock of 1 billion devices, the current equipment is also equipped with the EMUI system based on the Android system, after the future upgrade to the Hongmeng system, the number of devices and market share of the Hongmeng system will naturally increase, and now Huawei and Huawei launched the wisdom ecology most of the factory that is pre-installed Hongmeng system, according to the original Huawei first released the Hongmeng system when the route map shows, In the future, Hongmeng system will be applied to domestic PCs, smart watches, smart bracelets, car machines, headphones, VR glasses and other equipment, whether the Hongmeng system can shake the three major system giants in the United States, we wait and see.