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Summary: Nokia's CEO who is a former Microsoft president suggests he might switch to another operating system

AN UNFORTUNATE side-effect of departing Microsoft executives is that they land in other companies, which in turn can be changed from the inside. Nokia is a massive powerhouse when it comes to the mobile market, so its choice or development of an operating system matters a lot. A few months ago a Microsoft executive (president) was made its CEO and we have covered this in posts such as:

• If You Can't Beat Them, Hijack Them (Microsoft Joins Nokia and It Already Shows)
• Linux Battle in Mobile Phones Becomes Primarily Legal, Not Technical, Due to Software Patents
• Taking Over Linux, by Proxy
• Microsoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?
• Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?
• Microsoft Insiders Galore: BBC, Nokia, Others Already Damaged by Microsoft Hires
• Linspire/Ballnux in Tablets; HP Possibly Experiments With Vista 7 in Slate After Abandoning It, Then Hiring From Microsoft
• New Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEO
• Entryism Watch: Yahoo! Keeps Being Abducted by Microsoft Executives, HP Cancels Android Projects After CEO Appointment From SAP
• As Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New Leadership
• Head of Microsoft Romania Quits, Entryism Revisited
• Microsoft's Favourite 'Reporters' Are Attacking Nokia, Pushing it Into Microsoft's Arms

Microsoft's mobile reality seems worse and worse as time goes by. Not even half a billion dollars in advertising can make a dent in UNIX/Linux resurgence, so it would be foolish for Nokia to turn to Vista Phony 7 [sic]. As "Nokia profits fall again" the company's CEO (from Microsoft) starts talking about other possibilities and some think that it may be Android.

During a conference call following Nokia's Q4 reports, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop stated that they were setting up for a radical break with its past in order to keep up with the fast-changing market place, further adding to consider "multiple ecosystem patterns".

There were rumours that Nokia would connect back to Microsoft because of the CEO -- a rumour that Microsoft's booster Fried seems to be feeding on. Whatever Nokia does is going to matter a lot, so entryism remains a threat. ⬆