How Microsoft’s Windows Mobile strategy to fight against Apple’s iPhone and the new comer Google’s Android phones? “Microsoft could be preparing a bid for BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion,” as PC Pro wrote recently.
Since Microsoft has a substantial amount of cash on its balance sheet ($23 billion), with RIM currently valued at around $34 billion, the acquisition would be financially viable.
RIM’s shares have practically fallen off a cliff in recent months, plunging from a 52-week high of $150 to today’s price of around $68.
That leaves the company vulnerable to a takeover from a cash-rich suitor such as Microsoft, according to analysts.
Microsoft projected in 2008 that shipments of devices with Windows Mobile will increase from 11 million to 20 million units, but in fact, market only absorbing 18 million licenses, due to the delayed launch of certain smart-phones.
It would be weird to see Windows Mobile appearing on a BlackBerry, but business has it own logic, right?
