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

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Here's somebody who thinks the deal is good for Nokia since most of
the risk falls on Microsoft:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/nokia-and-microsoft-good-for-finland-risky-for-redmond.ars

shortened: http://bit.ly/gKNwsk