I think it's naive to be disappointed about Nokia trying to reach the broadest possible user base. Linux is still catching up. Most people know Windows/Microsoft better. Hey, even Firefox is still to be considered "a less popular alternative to Internet Explorer" if judged by userbase size.

With laptop models sporting same hardware, available with Windows AND Linux, the Linux versions have had twice as many returns from disgruntled customers, so I am not all that surprised they'd pick the platform they did. Also, the Windows percentage has increased steadily on netbooks the last year or two, I think it's inclusion here means more for Nokia than it does for Microsoft.

I am not saying that W7 is better for people, especially not the people in this forum. I am saying that a lot of people have been using the shortkeys and buttons in Windows/MS Office longer than they have been in Ubuntu/OpenOffice, and this gives Microsoft an advantage in marketing.

Marketing is ultra important to Nokia. This is their first lapt... booklet, and they want it to reach as many people as possible. We shouldn't be disappointed about that.

We should be much more disappointed in what was said right here in this thread, that the next generation of Maemo, Fremantle, is made for Ten Thumbs, not Ten Inches. "Currently" doesn't help much unless when it's a OS iteration that we'll have around for years, and it's been built up around a limitation that will in no way be easy to remove. Basically, to me, that generally means "no, we don't feel a seven inch Maemo tablet is a good idea". And that's a bit depressing.

The RX-51 wasn't 5 inches. RX-71? Not 7 inches.