Microsoft plus Nokia has a remarkably strong IP portfolio, and we will use that appropriately with the context of our ecosystem. … Ensuring that the value we create with our patents, we can defend from those who may take advantage.

How disgusting, Microsoft did not have to spend a red cent to be able to terrorize everyone with Nokia’s patent pile and suicide a dominant competitor. Everything else I read is claiming that Windows will be the dominant OS on Nokia phones now. This destruction of actual value and patent hype earns a specail mention in the Microsoft patent extortion timeline. Elop belongs in jail.

There ought to be an investigation here.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=belluzzo

And as you might recall he transferred SGI’s patents related to opengl/3d graphics to Microsoft, too. Yes, to me Nokia is being SGI’d…

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/71380

I didn’t intend to post many repetitive items about it, but here’s some stuff I fished this morning:

• Intel Won’t Forget About MeeGo

  MeeGo was a Nokia/Intel joint venture aimed at producing an acceptably good Linux-based mobile platform for devices. Now that Nokia is going WinPho, however, it looks like MeeGo will soon get short shrift. But, if Intel has anything to say about it, things will remain on course as previously ordained.

  In a short note, Intel informs the world that they’ll be sticking by the platform, thankyouverymuch, and nothing will change.

• Nokia Microsoft is like Yahoo Bing – Nokia’s days as innovator are over

  As I was plugging in to power my iPhone to live stream today’s Nokia press conference, I overheard someone lean over and say “This is the most important day of your life”. It was whispered into the ear of Nokia’s PR spokesman as he took the stage today to introduce Nokia CEO Steven Elop. It certainly was important – but not in a great way. Today his boss effectively ended Nokia’s history as an ecosystem of its own, laid down its guns, and gave in to a Windows Phone future.

• Nokia Commits Corporate Suicide

  In my opinion the losers are:

  1. Microsoft – WP7 isn’t ready for prime time.
  2. Nokia – Adopting WP7 is like adopting buggy whips…

• Meanwhile, in the Nokia boardroom…

• Introducing The Microsoft Puppet

  Step 1: Install Elop.

  Step 2: Get him to make a crazy bold bet to move Nokia phones over to the struggling Windows Phone platform even though embracing Android would seem to be an easier and safer bet.

  Step 3: Install another Microsoft vet, Chris Weber, as head of U.S. operations.

  Step 4: Install other former ‘Softies in positions of power. (It will happen.)

• In memoriam: Microsoft’s previous strategic mobile partners

  Microsoft’s new “strategic partnership” with Nokia is not its first. For a decade the software company has courted and consummated relationships with a variety of companies in mobile and telecom.

• Nokia kicks FOSS to the Curb

  If you have been by my blog here before then you might know I really like my Nokia N900. It is one of the most flexible, powerful, open source friendly devices on the market. I bought mine and carry it with pride everyday (because I am an FOSS advocate). When Nokia announced they where merging Maemo into the MeeGo project I openly voiced my support. With a corporate backer like Nokia, Meego was sure to quickly become a forerunner in mobile technology.

More like the mining company announcing all the gold they were to mine is actually fools gold.

1-Where were the Nokia’s shareholders minds, when they brought Elop onboard Nokia.
2-The man is a bureaucrat, he’s not a techie. I mean, bureaucrats do what bureaucrats do: cut costs and fire people.
3-Nokia needs a visionary, not a bureaucrat. They need a Jobs, not another Ron Hovsepian. And Hovsepian things is what Elop will do
4-Oh, no, the guy says they’re standing on a burning platform, and then, he tries to extinguish fire with gasoline… That’s amazing.
5-Nokia has years of development with Symbian and a fair amount of time developing Meego. They crossed all the way the ocean, and, when they are about to reach the shore, the “CEO” says: No, let’s backtrack and forget all we’ve done so far. Jeesus Merciful, what a MORON.
6-And then, he speaks about ecosystems, saying Nokia’s attempts produced no results. Ok, I give him that, let’s say that would be true(it’s not). Well, what the Einstein does then? Chooses a platform with NO ECOSYSTEM AT ALL. Oh, boy, are you sure this guy is not suffering from detachment from reality ?
7-Then, make all that noise Nokia’s in trouble. It’s not. Actually, M$ is in more trouble than Nokia. The fact is, Nokia’s suffers because it’s big. What’s easier to move around? An elephant or an ant ? Nokia’s gigantic size is their problem, they can’t move fast enough, and can’t match Apple’s speed, since Apple has only Hypefone to take care, nor Google’s speed, since Google only makes the operating system, and does not have to care about hardware.
8-Then, I say: Choosing WMP7 over their own in house creations will fail to make waves, he’s just exchanging a number six for half a dozen. Nokia’s problem is not the mobile OS, it is its size, and, if they don’t do something about it, not even Einstein coupled with, say, Alan Touring, can save them.

Let’s say Nokia today is like IBM from the past 70′s. IBM could not compete with the growing home computer market. Then, they hired M$ to make their operating system. Well, the rest of this history, everybody knows: IBM almost went down the drain, and M$ became a powerful behemoth, that still harms IT to this day. Seems like folks at Nokia haven’t learned from history.

I’ve posted this rant too on ghabuntu’s blog: http://www.ghabuntu.com/2011/02/on-nokia-going-down-microsofts-lane.html