Microsoft's Windows Phone is still lagging a long way behind Android and iOS in terms of market share, but new figures indicate that the mobile operating system has experienced strong European growth over the last year, particularly in Britain and Italy.
The figures from research firm Kantar Worldpanel Comtech show that Windows Phone has almost tripled its market share in the U.K., rising from 2.2 percent to 5.9 percent in the last twelve months.
This growth appears to have come mainly at the expense of RIM's BlackBerry platform, whose market share fell from 16 percent to 6.4 percent during the same period. Symbian's share also fell from 3 to 0.7 percent and iOS fell from 34.1 to 32.4 percent, while Android grew from 60.7 to 66.6 percent.
Overall, in the EU5 (Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy), Windows Phone's market share grew by 2.8 percent, and in Italy shares hit a very respectable 13.9 percent?up from just 2.8 percent a year ago.
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