I am not disappointed by Nokia's this decision. Moreover I am excited about it. I take it as Nokia adding 1 more OS to its family after Symbian, Qt, and MeeGo.

It would be interesting to see another OS (WP7) with Nokia and how it drives the competition in the market.
Looking forward to it guys.

It's so "amazing" that fails to index many sites indexed by google. Try to search for some really rare words and compare the results. Google usually will beat Bing by 2 times more results or so and much faster indexing.

And if you happen to create your own web site and then bother self with access logs analisys, you will see that Google learns about your site quickly and then re-indexing it on a regular basis. But hey, where you are, crawlers from bing? Looks like Google beats bing to the hell when it comes to infrastructure capable of indexing things anyhow quickly. And since web is a dynamic thing, bing really sucks. They're such a pathetic losers that Google even caught 'em copying their search results. It's obvious that you -> google search is faster than you -> bing -> google search, and it's unlikely that Bing "proxy" could be some privacy enhancement .

So, why I should use this third-rate service? Just because MS paid to Nokia? Hardly my fault - I do not want to use third-rate services just because Nokia wants this.

I think the answer to Nokia's MeeGo decision lies in the past.

Will they continue the MeeGo push?

Look at what has come out of maemo the past 4+ years. Has the FOSS community utilized the device and further its content/capability in alignment with market's interest?

The answer is no. (general market acceptance, number of apps available in ovi, etc)

They will clearly see this as a bad investment.

MeeGo, is a different animal of course.. with Intel's involvement and whatnot. But Nokia is not part of it anymore... (are they?).

So I see this as Nokia saying that the MeeGo/maemo6 device will be the first and maybe last device, depending on how it performs.

Bing is the DEFAULT search. You can still surrender privacy to Google as opposed to Nokia or Microsoft. How would it look if Android used Bing? It's their engine and it's only fair it uses it. What vote of confidence would it be for WP to gave default Google?

And, personally, I use both because Google has larger idexes, but Bing doesn't disallow my use as a scraper.

Why do people feel the need to separate in red and blue teams and kick each other? Why one or the other? Why not the best of both worlds?

And why insist in calling other's choice third rate? Did it ever occur toy you that other people's needs could be different? It has downsides and upsides. If it didn't, you's be crying it was a poor copy and they work together and they stole the indexes and and and. Oh wait.

5+ going on 6. The project opened its doors on May 2005 and devices started selling in November 2005.

What on earth does "market's interest" mean? But yes, the FOSS community has absolutely furthered the content and capability of Maemo devices.

The FOSS community isn't responsible for vendors' marketing.

The FOSS community doesn't publish on Ovi, for many good reasons. Besides, Ovi didn't even accept Maemo apps until last year.

This is an interesting read, even though it cannot be verified:

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/7..._products.html

Not surprising. I just hope that the upcoming Meego device has a keeboard and an FM transmiter. I have really enjoyed those features from my N900.

I just read an article on a Dutch newssite that Windows won't allow open-source software in their app store for Windows Phone 7 (Dutch article: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/105763/op...s-phone-7.html).

Simple, just update visual studio to have a compile to Arm option

Windows doesn't run on anything. It just waddles at best.