A Foolish Take: How iOS and Android Killed Windows Phone

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has dominated the PC operating system market for decades, but it has struggled to do the same with smartphones. Now, as IDC's first-quarter smartphone operating system report indicates, Microsoft's Windows Phone is officially dead.

Data source: IDC. Chart by author.

Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7, its first multitouch mobile OS, in 2010 -- three years after Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone and two years after Google launched Android.

Source: Fool.com