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Originally Posted by JohnJohn
I'll eat my shoe if this happens
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I'd recommend some cajun spices if you follow through on that.
You do know there is precedent for this, right?
MS licensed Exchange push email connectivity to Nokia a while back and they are both quite happy about it. And they are licensing Silverlight to all comers. Just this week it came out they help fund Apache.
MS is not particularly religious about licensing their tech to competitors or supporting competing platforms when customers require it.
(Look at XBOX's support for iPods, DiVX, and h.264, for starters...)
So there is no reason for MS *not* to take advantage of Nokia's phone-pushing clout, nor is there any reason why Nokia wouldn't want to get a cheap counter to iTunes for their phones; their options are Rhapsody, Napster, and Zune.
Would it really surprise anybody if they sat down with all three to see who came in with the best deal? And if they did, that MS would win?
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