Nathanael ArnoldGoogle+Twitter More News 5/5.757 New Windows Phone Operating System Smartphone Market Strategy. Microsoft will be introducing supportNick Parker per Barron s as part of its effort to collaborate with more low-cost device makers. Although Microsoft’s Windows Phone holds a marginal share of the overall mobile operating system market, the company boasted it had surpassed Barron’s results. According to dataaiOS and Google’s combined Android accounted for a 94 per cent share of the 2013 global market for operating systems. Microsoft on the other hand accounted for a share of 3.2 per cent. Microsoft’s Windows Phone strategy announcement comes as the company is closing its $7.2 billion acquisition According to a person familiar with the topic cited by Bloomberg Microsoft can continue to sell phones with Nokia’s own low-end market segment operating system until its low-cost Windows Phone business begins. Nokia also uses its high-end devices for Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. For now, however, it seems that Microsoft is surrendering the high-end smartphone market to more proven rivals like Apple, concentrating instead on the smartphone market’s rapidly rising low-end segment. We are in this situation where we have to expand where we can which, according to Barron’s report, improves the health of the ecosystem. @ArnoldEtan WSCS)