Comments on: What’s behind the Microsoft Flash deal? http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/03/17/whats-behind-the-microsoft-flash-deal/ Telecoms industry news and opinion Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Pascal http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/03/17/whats-behind-the-microsoft-flash-deal/#comment-1597 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:43:58 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/03/17/whats-behind-the-microsoft-flash-deal/#comment-1597 Microsoft has realised that re-inventing the wheel is not sustainable. I still find it difficult to comprehend how this company was been trying to secretly advance an agenda that would have pushed the mobile industry to the dark days of proprietary computing. Nokia 'partnership' with Microsoft was an attempt to protect their handset market from the likes of Samsung and emerging IP-telephony sets optimised for WiFi and WiMAX networks. Microsoft lost the plot when they tried to dominate a mass-market service with the same tactics they used to strangle innovation at desktop level. Expect more 'partnerships' from Microsoft as computing moves from the notebook to the mobile handset. On a positive note, the functionality of our handsets will become more customisable to the average user unlike the rigid Symbian. This OS requires one to have a degree in inter-planetary gravitational algorithms just to get it to perform simple tasks like automatically forwarding text messages. - Pascal Microsoft has realised that re-inventing the wheel is not sustainable. I still find it difficult to comprehend how this company was been trying to secretly advance an agenda that would have pushed the mobile industry to the dark days of proprietary computing.

Nokia ‘partnership’ with Microsoft was an attempt to protect their handset market from the likes of Samsung and emerging IP-telephony sets optimised for WiFi and WiMAX networks.

Microsoft lost the plot when they tried to dominate a mass-market service with the same tactics they used to strangle innovation at desktop level. Expect more ‘partnerships’ from Microsoft as computing moves from the notebook to the mobile handset.

On a positive note, the functionality of our handsets will become more customisable to the average user unlike the rigid Symbian. This OS requires one to have a degree in inter-planetary gravitational algorithms just to get it to perform simple tasks like automatically forwarding text messages.

- Pascal

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