Microsoft boasts 15 percent marketshare in New Zealand, looking
to further market products and services  Lumia 925  Microsoft's
New Zealand general manager Paul Muckleston has boasted at this
week's Tech Ed 2013 conference in Auckland that the company has
leaped in smartphone marketshare in the region, from just 2
percent two years ago to 15 percent reported in July of this
year. We've previously looked at how Microsoft has been gaining
grounds in Europe and Latin America.  Muckleston notes that
consumers in the region can expect to see more localised apps on
the store.  Nokia's head of sales in New Zealand, Scott
McFarlane said Apple "had woken up to colour" some time after
Nokia had already done so. "When the Lumia 800 came out, half
the sales were in blue - not just in the consumer space. A lot
of sales are going through corporate channels." We'll be the
first to say we love a spice of colour on our Windows Phones.
Neither Muckleston nor McFarlane could comment on whether the
next generation of Nokia Wind