On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:57:39 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:13:53 -0500,
> Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:18:01 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:05:40 +0100,
>>> Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 07 February 2008 10:45 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>>>> Microsoft urges Nokia to offer Windows Mobile devices
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>| While Nokia phones don?t yet have a Windows OS, they do use a range of
>>>>>>>| other Microsoft software. This includes ActiveSynch for connecting to
>>>>>>>| Exchange Servers and the PlayReady DRM technology used to protect purchased
>>>>>>>| music and video content.
>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>| Starkweather said the existing relationship between the two companies was
>>>>>>>| strong and he was enthusiastic about it developing further in the future.
>>>>>>>|
>>>>>>>| ?We work closely with Nokia and we would love to have them go all the way,?
>>>>>>>| he said. ?It?s something we talk about all the time.?
>>>>>>> `----
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>>>>>>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16510/1055/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Despite their Linux tablets, Nokia is a big lobbyist for software patents,
>>>>>>> it's a monopoly, and the Trolltech buyout seems hostile.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And yet the N800, N810 and 770 have been brutally popular. The reason
>>>>>> microsoft are pushing so hard on Nokia is that they've gone further than
>>>>>> any of the other manufacturers in adopting a truly foss approach. If
>>>>>> Microsoft can turn Nokia around, they might just manage to kill the
>>>>>> N810, and whilst this shoots Nokia's long-term down in flames, who in
>>>>>> senior management ever worries about that?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think that Microsoft is just desperate for Nokia's attention at this stage.
>>>>> The last time I read about it, the division behind Windows Mobile was reaping
>>>>> huge losses and it had to be hidden from investors.
>>>>
>>>> LOL. What a dickhead. Him and Mark Kent telling little porkies to each
>>>> other from their respective bunkers. Keep it "real" guys - you might get
>>>> somewhere then.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Are you claiming that Windows mobile is not losing money ?
>>
>> Actually it appears that he is claiming that Mark Kent and Roy Schestowitz
>> are dick heads.
>> Seems pretty accurate to me.
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> he claimed they were lieing, specifically about something in that post.
> So I was wondering what he thought was a lie. Didn't realize you were
> playing his sock today.
I'm nobodies sock.
I work solo and call them as I see them.
I happen to agree with a lot of what Hadron posts.
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Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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