>MS has had considerable success in consumer markets, already had carrier relationships, had developer relationships etc etc By consumer market, you mean PC ma

>MS has had considerable success in consumer markets, already had carrier relationships, had developer relationships etc etc By consumer market, you mean PC market. They were tiny in mobile market. Its the reason they try to shove Nokia into its platform Nokia already has they the dev relationship, carrier relationship, retail relationship. They dont need all that from microsoft. The only thing they need is money and strong leadership. Nokia was mismanaged into oblivion. > It doesn't matter No, it does matter. They were already one foot in the grave, but jumping ship into windows mobile is just the nail in the coffin.