[PLUG] Nokia to adopt Windows, What's the fate of MeeGo?

[Arun Khan]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mayuresh <mayuresh at acm.org> wrote:
> http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_02_11_Nokia_MS_Join_Forces_Against_Google_Apple.html
>
> MeeGo which was a merge of moblin (Intel's Fedora like distro) and Nokia
> Maemo (Debian like distro which runs on Nokia N900 and some of its
> predecessors) was supposed to be the way forward for Nokia smartphones.
>
> If they are dumping this and adopting Windows, that's a sad news for Linux
> community.
>
> Business-wise is it a step back for them? Time will tell.

Quote from the cited Article.
<quote>
Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its
smartphones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop's overhaul of
the world's biggest cellphone maker.
</quote>

Stephen Elop is an ex Microsoft executive;  please refer [1] slide
number five.

[1] <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Leaving-Microsoft-Software-Giants-Key-Employee-Losses-725500/?kc=EWKNLENT02112011STR1>

-- Arun Khan