Microsoft applies make-up to Nokia's corpse -- was Re: Nokia :-3 Microsoft fiasco

[Michael Haney]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Simcity 2000 anyone?
>
> On Monday, February 14, 2011 01:53 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>  On 14/02/2011 11:53, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14/02/2011 10:02, Sven Aluoor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://imgur.com/3nN2k
>>>>
>>>
>>> Elop worked for Ballmer before he went to Nokia.
>>>
>>> BC
>>
>> MICROSOFT was today applying some rouge and lipstick to the dead face of
>> Nokia.
>>
>> The software giant said it wanted Nokia to look like it did when it was
>> young and happy before they shove it in a box and throw it into a hole
>> in the ground.
>>
>> Chief executive Steve Ballmer said: "We wanted to capture its sense of
>> humour and infectious love of life.
>>
>> "We wanted to make it look so good you would be tempted to give it an
>> open-mouthed kiss or heave it into an upright position and dance with it."
>>
>> The company will be interred next week at a lavish funeral which will
>> feature its trademark tune being played by the massed Stylophones of the
>> Finnish Royal Navy.
>>
>> But friends and family of the mobile phone manufacturer have claimed
>> that Microsoft has just made it look even worse.
>>
>> Keevi Hakaflakanen, who has known Nokia since it was five, said: "Oh no,
>> that's awful. It looks like an alcoholic clown that's been hit with a
>> frying pan.
>>
>> "Looking at that I would have to say that I don't think Microsoft is a
>> properly trained mortician.
>>
>> "And should its eyes be wide open like that? It's freaking me out."
>>
>> He added: "Microsoft should probably stick to what it does best, like
>> making software for people who live in 1994."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/microsoft--applies-make%11up-to-nokia%27s-corpse-201102113537/
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in
>> rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
>>

Microsoft is desperate to get Windows Phone 7 into as many hands as
possible.  Like with the Zune, they want to try to out-compete with
Apple, but like with the Zune they aren't going to succeed.  Nokia
would have been far better off siding with Google and using Android
exclusively.

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