Microsoft CEO Steve in July at its partners conference that the current version, Windows Phone 7, hasn't done well. "We've gone from very small to ... very small," he told an audience earlier this month.

But Ballmer also took the long view, saying, "you will see a lot of progress in the market going forward."

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in Computerworld's Mobile OSes Topic Center.