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On 12/02/11 12:48, Julian Hall wrote: > > 'Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground > lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices. The deal will see Nokia > use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company > said.' > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680 > > Death of Symbian? Sounds like you might be able to FTP bits of it from the Symbian foundation for a week or two... Death of Nokia? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-27/nokia-sees-profits-market-share-shrink-in-q4.html Sounds like Nokia were in trouble, and Microsoft made them an offer, and Nokia agreed to get rid of all those expensive software engineers in favour of the one's at Microsoft who write a phone OS that isn't selling. Clearly this will sell some more phones with Microsoft OS out of inertia in Nokia channels. But Microsoft didn't really have much problem getting the first 2 million or so phones out to retailers, just that they didn't place many orders to replace them, so presumably they didn't sell well. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq