Reception
User interface
The reception to the Metro UI and overall interface of the OS has also been highly praised for its style,
[citation needed with ZDNet noting its originality and fresh clean look.
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Engadget and ZDNet applauded the integration of Facebook into the People Hub as well as other builtin capabilities, such as Windows Live, etc. However, inversion the once tight Facebook and Twitter integration has been removed so that updates from those social media sites must be accessed via their respective apps.
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Market share
Windows Phone 7 (2010
–2012)
According to Gartner, there were 1.6 million devices running Microsoft OS sold to customers in Q 2011 worldwide 1.7 million smartphones using a Microsoft mobile OS were sold in Q 2011, fora market share In Q 2011, Microsoft's worldwide market share dropped slightly to 1.5%.
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In Q 2011 market share increased to 1.9%,
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and it stayed at 1.9% for Q However it should be noted that such reports for Q, Q and Q of year 2011 include both Windows Phone and small part of Windows Mobile marketshare under the same "Microsoft mobile OS" banner, and do not make the distinction of separating the marketshare values of the two. According to Nielsen, Windows Phone had a 1.7% market share in Q 2012,
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and then dropped back to 1.3% in Q 2012.
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