Well Elop's a pretty stubborn guy by all accounts and him being 7th largest share holder at Microsoft + having ties with Steve Ballmer i think this whole relationship is Microsoft's way of bailing out Nokia without raising consent decree / European union flags. Its almost like Steve B said down Elop and said " I need you to take one for the team, go be the CEO of Nokia and lets try Pink Studio again only this time with an established brand".
I'd say Nokia is under a "new day" leadership and given Elop's past success (which is really all you can bank on atm for Nokia) he may turn the "burning platform" into a patio deck with a good view :D (heh metaphor abuse). Having a hardware provider produce a phone that is strongly influenced by Microsoft teams could be the kick up this freaky phone needs as consumer wise the current state of play isn't working as well as they predicted (if any of you raise the 2million units figure i'll slap you :D). Under Elop Macromedia had the motto "Experience Matters" so i'm thinking this guy has his finger on the right set of pulses it just will be a test to see if he can marshal Nokia employees to back his play. He turned Macromedia from a small software company into a 3.4billion acquisition and arguably thanks to his efforts Adobe is 10x stronger as a brand today. He's a very disruptive business man for rich platform markets (devices + desktop) ... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 February 2011 10:43, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good news for WP7 I reckon – >> >> Nokia partners with Microsoft, adopts Windows Phone 7 >> >> Nokia will make Windows Phone 7 its primary smartphone OS and partner with >> Microsoft on mobile ads and mapping >> >> >> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/376389/nokia_partners_microsoft_adopts_windows_phone_7/?eid=-255&uid=8071 > > I'd be surprised if this stays as Nokia's corporate direction. Their stock > crapped out 14% on the news and over a thousand staff walked out in > response. > This is going to be extraordinarily interesting to watch from the > sidelines. > -- > David Connors | [email protected] | www.codify.com > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > 189 363 > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > >
