Nokia and Microsoft form partnership

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

It's a win-win situation for Microsoft, the future of the PC is mobile, no doubt about it.
Not so good for Nokia in my opinion,
Here's why:
Nokia has for a decade said: the future of mobile phone handsets would go like the PC industry, to software and services.
They bought full ownership of Symbian, the world's most used smartphone OS platform - and had already a near-completed replacement OS for Symbian, called MeeGo (developed with Intel). Now they abandon all that, and take onboard a brand new OS developed by Microsoft that has a miniscule market share, miniscule development community etc.
But they will continue to support Symbian for a couple of years, and they will still support MeeGo as an open source OS and wil release at least one MeeGo device this year.
Nokia will support THREE operating systems? Nokia's Symbian developers will feel betrayed, won't they?
Cost and confusion right there i'd say.
And a partnership with Microsoft is dangerous on a few levels, if one can remember when Microsoft had entered the Smartfones business, in particular dealings with HTC and Motorola, which weren't very good.
Time will tell.

True! Microsoft is clearly the biggest winners at the moment.