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● 01.29.11

●● Will Elop Choose the Future (Linux) or His Past (Microsoft) for Nokia?

Posted in GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Windows at 6:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: Nokia’s CEO who is a former Microsoft president suggests he might switch to another operating system

AN UNFORTUNATE side-effect of departing Microsoft executives is that they land in other companies, which in turn can be changed from the inside. Nokia is a massive powerhouse when it comes to the mobile market, so its choice or development of an operating system matters a lot. A few months ago a Microsoft executive (president) was made its CEO and we have covered this in posts such as:

If You Can’t Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)Linux Battle in Mobile Phones Becomes Primarily Legal, Not Technical, Due to Software PatentsTaking Over Linux, by ProxyMicrosoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?Microsoft Insiders Galore: BBC, Nokia, Others Already Damaged by Microsoft HiresLinspire/Ballnux in Tablets; HP Possibly Experiments With Vista 7 in Slate After Abandoning It, Then Hiring From MicrosoftNew Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEOEntryism Watch: Yahoo! Keeps Being Abducted by Microsoft Executives, HP Cancels Android Projects After CEO Appointment From SAPAs Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New LeadershipHead of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism RevisitedMicrosoft’s Favourite ‘Reporters’ Are Attacking Nokia, Pushing it Into Microsoft’s Arms

Microsoft’s mobile reality seems worse and worse as time goes by. Not even half a billion dollars in advertising can make a dent in UNIX/Linux resurgence, so it would be foolish for Nokia to turn to Vista Phony 7 [sic]. As “Nokia profits fall again” the company’s CEO (from Microsoft) starts talking about other possibilities and some think that it may be Android.

=> ↺ mobile reality | ↺ “Nokia profits fall again” | ↺ some think

During a conference call following Nokia’s Q4 reports, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop stated that they were setting up for a radical break with its past in order to keep up with the fast-changing market place, further adding to consider “multiple ecosystem patterns”.

There were rumours that Nokia would connect back to Microsoft because of the CEO — a rumour that Microsoft’s booster Fried seems to be feeding on. Whatever Nokia does is going to matter a lot, so entryism remains a threat. █

=> ↺ seems to be feeding on

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