>>So, MSFT is committed to WP7 and competing with Apple and staying on the mobile technology bandwagon and willing to spend to get a stronger foothold in the door.
The next rumor to surface (second of three expected in coming days) will be a formal merger between MS and Nokia. They might as well since other WP7 manufacturers need to decide whether they want to compete with devices from another provider (Nokia) that is collaborating with MS. Today's announcement is *much* closer than simply loading WP7 on Nokia devices.
BTW, did you see the Nokia CEO's explanation for not going with Android? "Differentiation would have been difficult." Good move- tell customers you didn't choose the best OS but the one that's best for the vendor. Customers always respond to that. Nokia shares fell 12% on hearing the good news.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
