Just wondering:

In this article you can read a lot about previous strategic partnerships Microsoft established... None of them seems to have been successful.

OTOH, Nokia proudly presented it's Qt/Symbian/MeeGo strategy not long ago. Only to change it again yesterday.

So what already happened in the past is:
a) Strategic partnerships with MS fail
b) Nokia changes its "long term strategy" fast and unexpectedly

Is there anything in this NoWin-deal that would make it different from either previous MS-deals or previous "long-term-strategies"? Can we seriously hope to see both Flop and NoWin gone again by 2013? Or do we have indications that this time it's different, this time the long-term-strategy will really be long-term?

I'm not asking what you'd hope for. I'd be interested in what people with some experience would think is more likely.