On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mayuresh <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_02_11_Nokia_MS_Join_Forces_Against_Google_Apple.html > > MeeGo which was a merge of moblin (Intel's Fedora like distro) and Nokia > Maemo (Debian like distro which runs on Nokia N900 and some of its > predecessors) was supposed to be the way forward for Nokia smartphones. > > If they are dumping this and adopting Windows, that's a sad news for Linux > community. > > Business-wise is it a step back for them? Time will tell.
Quote from the cited Article. <quote> Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its smartphones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop's overhaul of the world's biggest cellphone maker. </quote> Stephen Elop is an ex Microsoft executive; please refer [1] slide number five. [1] <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Leaving-Microsoft-Software-Giants-Key-Employee-Losses-725500/?kc=EWKNLENT02112011STR1> -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
