Thread: Ballmer and Elop...the new Gordon Gekko/Bud Fox?
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tkatchev is offline tkatchev
2011-02-15 , 13:09
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Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
Why did you do it Ballmer? Cause it was wreckable?
Naw, he's not that evil.

Simply put: WinPhone is currently an even bigger failure than Symbian. Microsoft couldn't get any hardware manufacturers to sign up for WinPhone, so they had to bribe and acquire Nokia, or else they had a very real risk of not releasing any WinPhone phones at all.