Future Nokia phones will run Windows Phone 7. Microsoft as well as Nokia have announced a partnership which will span Microsoft’s less-than-successful OS with Nokia’s flagging handset business. The move is not startling: In his now-infamous “Burning Platform” memo Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop – an ex-Microsoft senior manager – promised to share “the new plan upon February 11″ which would “transform the company.”

So what will happen?

Windows 7 will now be Nokia’s “principal smartphone strategy”. This equates to which a Finnish company will ditch Symbian as its flagship OS as well as setup WP7 handsets instead.

Bing will be a default poke engine upon Nokia phones, but Nokia Maps will goon, as well as they’ll be folded into Bing poke.

Nokia’s application store will be swallowed total by Microsoft Marketplace.

Finally, as well as not insignificantly, WP7 can right away make use of Nokia’s conduit billing agreements. This will let people buy services as well as products as well as have a cost added to their cellphone bill. This give Microsoft entrance to many people without credit cards.

This seems similar to the great move for both parties. WP7 is the good operating scheme that has unsuccessful to take off, and Nokia’s smartphone commercial operation is clearly dead (you could disagree that in a U.S it never got started). Hooking up competence just provide a boos which both need.

Not which this is an even-sided deal. For Microsoft, it’s business as common, putting the OS upon third celebration hardware. For Nokia, that has regularly taken care of the software and hardware in-house, the the little some-more slashing. Imagine Apple putting WebOS upon the iPhone and you begin to get a thought.

Nokia as well as Microsoft Hook Up [Microsoft]
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