Let the past be the past man, look forward to a better future where competition breeds change and everyone is FORCED to deliver now or be left in the dust. It shows, look at Nokia now, look at Microsoft now, look at where Google is heading EVERYONE has had bad experiences with microsoft this is common place, and it has shown in their wp7 sales among many of their other products.

Unfortunately, though Microsoft still hold the desktop OS monopoly, but everywhere else, they must work. They have ZERO excuses now and I'm happy to see the changes they made. It's the reason why win 7 is a hit. I'm not sure I get what you mean when you say that they are sour over the past 2 years. I'm having better experiences than I ever did from Microsoft theses past 2 years. What do you refer to exactly?

An hour ago, I looked at windows 8 and it looks spectacular. Without competition we might have been on an ie6 type browser still. Now ie9 is actually w3c standards compliant. They've come a long way in 3 years imo.

Now on Nokia, the sole reason as to why i disagree with the strategy is simple, it's because I deem it unnecessary. QT development with proper management is all they needed, windows phone seems unnatural to Nokia...so different from how they do things. It is too radical and unnecessary change. I also doubt Microsoft is the savior, but you never know. Feedback on wp7 on a nokia device seems really positive all over the web. That may disgust you, but it's a fact.

Now, I'm not sure of the details of the contract, nor do I know of the statistics of their engineering team nor their talent nor their capability in their current state, but i think they'll be fine on all points. In the end, CEOs come and go....and the boards decision is subject to change before they crash and burn. Nokia is still one of the top ten brands in the world with a hyperextensive portfolio in all mobile technology.

What is most important is that FOSS in the form of QT will live, and can readily be picked up by anyone even Nokia at anytime....and it won't be too late. n9 proves that.