Just read this interesting article on Business Insider.

Ihttp://read.bi/eHMZEI

Just to add to the gumph...

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve...-napkin-2011-1

at first i was like LOL
but I remember SEGA's hardware division become the xbox
so now I'm like WTF

Impossible, Nokia costs too much for Microsoft to buy outright without having capital to do other projects. At best a Carl Icahn type of agressive takeover could be possible at these low share prices.

Also there is no incentive for even Microsoft to be in the hardware game. The minute they can make their own hardware, you'll see channel partners such as HTC drop the Win7 platform. The money is in the services and not the hardware, so to reach the biggest amount of users they need their channel partners. This is just a dream speculated on by those that don't understand the risks Microsoft exposes itself to just by even considering it.

Microsoft has a different strategy:

If you can't beat them, Join them.

ballmer has elop as president. Why waste money on something when you already conrol it.

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.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I like (not love) MS and Nokia, but together they'd be worse than Apple!

Us and nokia are in a similar position. Both doing good. But they slowly lose money, importance and speed when the competitors grow stronger and faster. MS to buy nokia. Its like...china buying us.

How likely is that

more garbage and guff spouting from american commentators who cannot comprehend a successful company and products from outside of the USA.

and as for the numbers game, the N8 is an excellent device with the specsw it has. dual core and multi Ghz cpus do not necessarily mean better performance, and will drain batteriws like nothing on earth.

Mobile tech is about balanceing of performance and portability, which is what nokia do very well, and have been doing so for years.