What we have here is that same dilemma Vanjoki mentioned when speaking about Android and peeing your pants for warmth. It's not really that important for Nokia to have huge media coverage about some new platform by any means possible. More important for them is to have clear strategy on software and platforms, which they do have now. It really couldn't get more straightforward: It is S40 for low end, Symbian for middle class and MeeGo for high end, Symbian and MeeGo bound together with Qt. Yes, there was a delay on N8 but afterall they started shipping them today, as promised. Yes, Meego is in hindsight, but it's not mature enough to be published at large for now. However, if Nokia needed the publicity suggested for Windows Phone 7 to close the gap between N8 and future MeeGo device, only to create some buzz on american market, they are late. It is simply impossible to develop, refine and publish new device on new operating system, integrate it to Ovi services and push it to the customers in three months.

Even if it succeeded, what good would it make? IMO, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Blogoshpere would be touting their idea of outsourcing all software development as sensible choice, but with MeeGo being just around the corner (Q1/2011, certainly not later than Q2), it would take too much attention away from launch of new product. It would make an utter disaster from marketing point of view. Even if that happened, what would they do with Windows Phone 7? How would they position it? To enterprise? They have Symbian already, with very good management and integration to services. To high end multimedia and mobile computing? There's MeeGo - they cannot adopt Windows Phone 7 without killing MeeGo. That would be very bad thing for their credibility because it would be seen as complete inability to stick to strategy and act in predictable way.

Basically, all Nokia can do right now is to execute their strategy as fast and good as possible. Any other option will only be a burden in the long run. If MeeGo is a failure, then there might be room for Windows, but we don't know it until N9 actually ships.