Comments on: Microsoft-Nokia Pact: Logical, But Not Necessarily Appetizing

By: Nokia Slims Down, Sells Wireless Technology Business for $200M

Nokia Slims Down, Sells Wireless Technology Business for $200M — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:36:08 +0000

[...] business friendship in under a year — the Finnish phone-maker announced partnerships with both Microsoft and Intel in 2009 to help stave off competitor such as Apple and Google in the hotly contested [...]

By: Lonzo5

Lonzo5 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:22:56 +0000

Although I consider this hardly newsworthy, I’m wondering how the cease-and desist placed on Word affects this. Does Office Mobile use xml or is it based on a different architecture?

By: airplane food

airplane food — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:53:54 +0000

two big players technology companies made big deal.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:32:08 +0000

“increasingly less relevant”

By: Technology

Technology — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:40:50 +0000

That’s good news for Nokia users.

By: Nokia ditching Symbian for Maemo and Microsoft?

Nokia ditching Symbian for Maemo and Microsoft? — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:35:12 +0000

[...] Note: GigaOm has an article with additional market share information for Microsoft, Nokia, Apple and [...]

By: wombatmobile

wombatmobile — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:31:01 +0000

This bold, visionary move will win the PC week gold award for innovation, if it is ever 1998 again. Poor old Nokia. It thinks Microsoft is going to help it. The only way that will happen is if Finland applies to the Gates foundation for a grant to cure malaria.

By: Nokia’s Microsoft Deal: How Truly Focused is it on Open Source? | Geek & High Tech

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:38:21 +0000

[...] As GigaOm notes, the pact between Microsoft and Nokia–purportedly aimed at staving off the increases in market share that Research in Motion has seen–"is akin to taking two leftovers from your fridge, popping them on a plate and hoping people find the combination appetizing." Windows Mobile, the traditional platform that businesses interested in Microsoft’s mobile Office applications have run, has been increasingly threatened by both RIM and Apple in the smartphone market. While RIM and Apple don’t have huge market share among smartphones, they focus on the high end of the market, and their share of the industry’s profit margins is large and growing. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:39:40 +0000

Stacey Higginbotham can you do us a favor and stay away from the internet please? Your post was so full of horseshit, one has to wonder what you are smoking.

By: Microsoft, Nokia will bring Office apps to cellphones | csmonitor.com

Microsoft, Nokia will bring Office apps to cellphones | csmonitor.com — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:15:11 +0000

[...] response to the partnership on the blogosphere has been mixed. Over at GigaOm, Stacey Higginbotham says “as partners go, Microsoft is an uninspired choice. The two firms already compete to put [...]