That kills my hopes for a Nokia Android phone.
Also, Elop seems like the least interesting character to succeed Ballmer. What does he bring to the table? What has he done? Guy looks like a careerist.
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#22Microsoft is becoming more and more of an integrated software and hardware company than a purely software one. Maybe it's time to change the name to something without the "soft".
You mean "Nosoft"?
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#23Considering the amount paid for Motorola by Google, isn't it cheap?
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#24Microsoft is becoming more and more of an integrated software and hardware company than a purely software one. Maybe it's time to change the name to something without the "soft".
When the Windows NT kernel began driving mainframe-class hardware they weren't selling software for microcomputers either.
It's just a name.
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#25Wow. Some call Tomi.
For copious, copious background on the MS/Nokia debacle, 'burning platform' to present: communities-dominate.blogs.com
(Not affiliated, just an avid fan of this mobile industry analyst-become-blogger who does his own stats. Some of the charts are chilling.)
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#27That kills my hopes for a Nokia Android phone. Also, Elop seems like the least interesting character to succeed Ballmer. What does he bring to the table? What has he done? Guy looks like a careerist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Career
I'm not sure that was ever likely with Elop at the helm, but Nokia is now out of the phone business until at least 2016.
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#28That was more or less expected... But I think it is really sad too. I really enjoyed the pre-Microsoft Nokia, I had account in their dev forums, and loved their SDKs, community, Sybian, whatnot. To me, when they suddenly dropped Sybian while they were still ahead AND expanding in some markets (like Brazil, Russia...) and switched to MS, it was really sad, and I felt like they dropped the ball. Their Lumia phones DO p…
> I really enjoyed the pre-Microsoft Nokia, I had account in their dev forums, and loved their SDKs, community, Sybian, whatnot.
Really?
I thought their SDK circa 2007 (especially the emulator) and API docs were terrible, and Symbian C++ was a real pain to work with. Also, segregation between regular developers and Nokia partners (who paid to have access to extra private APIs) put unnecessary barriers to development.
I won't miss it.
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#29Do we imagine Elop tanked Nokia on purpose to cheapen the cost of this acquisition (and shutter the patents under one roof)?
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#30So Elop was in fact a Trojan Horse? Wonder what this does to the already strained MSFT vendor relationships. You could now almost guarantee vendors will start to completely dump Windows on ARM and possibly even look for alternatives to Windows x86.
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