Nope.

Nokia doesn't need Microsoft, Microsoft doesn't need Nokia. It's a bad match all the way around... it's two heterosexual men trying to dance. Which one will lead? The hard-headed Microsoft or the headstrong Nokia?

To be honest, it's a very ill conceived match. And ultimately - I'll be honest... absolutely nobody in Europe wants an American company in control of their homegrown company. So instead of outright purchase by Microsoft, Nokia needs to refocus, finish a platform fully, embrace the open source community and learn how promote things outside of their own regions.

I'm not a fan of this happening for the aforementioned reasons... and for this one final one. I personally don't want to hear any more anti-American sentiment when honestly the problems are elsewhere.

With that said, this will invariably incite the ire of any European that thinks highly of Nokia and very lowly of Microsoft - who's had an even worse time embracing open source than even Nokia.