There's 2 things I would like to add. I don't THINK I've read them yet- but it's a LONG thread.

It's possible microsoft have given nokia a sh*itload of cash to bin any further development of meego. That way they don't have an obviously better competitor against wp7 while they are trying to get that built up to an established level. ( who would buy a wp7 over a meego device if everything else is equal). So- Nokia, thinking about the money side of things, might have wieghed up- 1. Loads of cash for doing nothing, or 2. sinking loads of cash into something that might still not take off as expected.

The second idea is actually a positive one.....
WHAT IF- microsoft want to take meego, or bits of it, and use it on their wp7, or what is coming after wp7 ( wp8, or wingo or whatever), and that is why symbian and meego aren't getting any more money now, because there are dealings going on to what they can take and what they want to take etc. So, in a years time a 'wingo' device gets eleased that has meego as the basic ui that you boot up, then all the applications etc are microsoft things, developed to boot under meego. It will of course be painted differently and have M$ all over it, but i it's a meego shell then maybe it could be a good device?

Just a couple of ideas I had, nothing more than that................