Has anybody considered this before talking about him getting fired by the board: Nokia are in Ballmers pocket, they made an agreement for billions of dollars, this includes the board who would know about this. We do not know the details of this agreement at all. It could include a contract for exclusive OS use. Meaning that once Nokias obligation to Intel for a meego handset had been met they would not, or rather cannot, create any other handsets with meego. The N9 is a past obligation handset to Intel, perhaps not one they even wanted to release after the deal with MS. This would explain Elops downplaying of meego and the WP7 leaks, they may not have a choice for some time, until the contract runs out.