Nokia’s news today that it would be adopting Microsoft‘s Windows Phone may have fit in with the rumors and it still met with significant surprise among industry and users alike. On the surface it looks a lot like the Finnish company has sacrificed independence for short-term survival. Nokia has basically given Symbian its marching orders. The company still expects to sell 150m Symbian devices over the next year. The company has cut the best licensee deal with Microsoft to date, though that’s partly because this isn’t a regular OEM/software relationship.
Nokia’s software engineers will be injecting some of the company’s services creativity into the OS, and feeding those developments back into other OEMs. Nokia devices will get access to Xbox Live and Microsoft Office. Engineers from both companies will work together on future services and OS changes. The company is also looking at the possibility of MeeGo, Windows or other platforms for tablets.
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