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Comments on: Microsoft harpoons Nokia to fine tune Zune

Ahhhhhh 

Posted Monday 4th August 2008 16:09 GMT

Coat

So first Nokia buy out Symbian, poisoning it too all other phone vendors.

Than having killed the only thing that might ever have competed with WinCE, they're in bed with M$.

Mine's the coat with a psion5 in one pocket, and an iPhone in the other.

Apparently Microsoft has already forgotten PlaysForSure 

Posted Monday 4th August 2008 16:12 GMT

Hopefully everyone else has too.

Hmm 

Posted Monday 4th August 2008 22:06 GMT

Thumb Down

The previous boss for Nokia, Ollila was strong and clever enough to stay out of bed with the Plague.

Now I am getting worried about Nokia.

@Jeff Fraser 

Posted Monday 4th August 2008 22:06 GMT

"The PlaysForSure program has been terminated and replaced by a "Certified for Windows Vista" program instead."

- Wikipedia

Buy them out 

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 00:01 GMT

Gates Horns

Why bother with a loser like Yahoo? M$ should just buy out Nokia.

There won't be any antitrust concerns because M$ phones have flopped so badly that there's hardly any overlap.

Zune? 

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 08:46 GMT

Wassat?

“Designed for Zune Marketplace” or “Zune Marketplace compatible” 

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 12:06 GMT

Happy

Until MS decide to move the goalposts.

Meanwhile on this side of the pond, WTF is a Zune?

re: Ahhhhhh 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 08:57 GMT

Coat

More to the point what's a "psion"? is that like one of those Japanese fish?

(Making sure there's no legacy h/ware in my pocket)

jk

@AC 

Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 07:57 GMT

Joke

Psion will be "legacy" hardware, when something better comes along. Although, yeah, I take your point the iPhone's a bit drastic.