____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 07 February 2008 10:45 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft urges Nokia to offer Windows Mobile devices
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| 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.?
>> `----
>>
>> 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.
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