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I think of Microsoft like a talking head on TV; they may be interesting or entertaining if I am bored, but they are just spewing opinions and are not directly i

I think of Microsoft like a talking head on TV; they may be interesting or entertaining if I am bored, but they are just spewing opinions and are not directly involved in the topics they opine about. Microsoft has not taken actions proving that it knows anything about how to market a tablet, so its opinion has only entertainment value.

evangineer 16y ago
+1 All MS's rhetoric on this subject is a useless distraction. What matters is whether they are shipping competitive mobile products that consumers want to buy and developers want to develop for. By those benchmarks, they have failed and are continuing to fail. The Nokia partnership is clearly a desperate attempt to resuscitate their mobile strategy. Given the ground that Nokia has ceded at the high end of the mobile market to Apple and Google it is far from certain, that this move will succeed. What might be interesting is to leverage Nokia's production & distribution power to push WP7 into mid-range devices & featurephones. MicroNokia need to move fast though, the likes of ZTE are already targeting the mid-range with cheaper Android devices and are growing fast as a result.