Former MS President of Business Goes to Nokia and Kills MeeGo - Surprised?
Timeline
- 9/10 President of Microsoft’s Business division leaves to become Nokia’s CEO
- 9/14 Nokia World doesn’t mention MeeGo at all
- Nokia Leaves MeeGo Alliance
- 2/10 Nokia and Microsoft form a partnership to push Windows Mobile7 on Nokia phones
A few links
Linux Hate
We all know that Microsoft doesn’t like Linux. It is afraid and it should be. Microsoft owns the desktop, but not much else. The millions and millions of uncounted Linux servers and Android cell phones is cleaning Microsoft out of those markets. All that Cloud Computing stuff runs on Linux. For IT professionals, Linux is a joy to use and saves over $100/month in added costs required for a Microsoft solution.
To be fair, Maemo (which I have 3 yrs experience with) wasn’t ever going to be a mainstream mobile platform. It wasn’t sexy and was missing some critical software – the contact manager was a joke. I can’t really blame Nokia for wanted to back out from a business perspective. Most GUI designers, fewer engineeers would have helped.
If this wasn’t carefully planned, I’d be surprised. It was an easy and cheap way to effectively kill Linux at Nokia and turn a competitor into a pawn. Nice job Microsoft. As a stock holder, I’m encouraged. OTOH, I really need to sell those MSFT shares.
Seems the other news media caught on to this.
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