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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Thanks for that. That job posting says exactly what kind of MS ties are being developed (emphasis mine): Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will begin collaborating immediately on the design, development and sales/marketing of productivity solutions for the mobile professional, bringing Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices. These solutions will be available for a broad range of Nokia smartphones starting with the company’s business optimized range, Nokia E series.(snip for brevity)
It does state many things clearly. Problem is, very carefully, only Symbian in mentioned by name and there is no mention of any other OS at all. It doesn't exclude or include MeeGo directly or indirectly, so it doesn't answer the MeeGo question at all. So is MeeGo to be left out of this partnership, either by M$ simply ignoring it or is Nokia gonna eliminate it? This doesn't say.

As I've said before and I truly believe it, M$ will never allow it's core services or software to run on Linux. It will NEVER happen. Not over Monkey Boy Ballmer's dead, cold body. M$ will always consider Linux to be a disease. So MeeGo, if it survives at Nokia, will be excluded from this collaboration with M$.
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Last edited by Crashdamage; 2011-02-09 at 22:27.