REMEMBER CITADEL said:That can't be denied, Microsoft really needs to try a lot harder in continental Europe. Hell, that's where I live and Microsoft is the only out of the big three not officially present on the Croatian market.
However, UK is the biggest market in Europe (for a while UK alone was even bigger than Japan) so it can - and does, when you look at the overall European numbers - practically make up for all the losses on the continent.
The UK market was ahead of Japan in software units for the first six weeks of 2009. It is now just over half the size of the Japanese market in terms of revenue.
If the UK keeps falling at the rate it whas been it will only be a little bit bigger than the French and German markets at the end of this year.