MSFT & Nokia? Found this today <<05:28 PM ET 02/05/98
Microsoft,Nokia to develop products-Gates
HELSINKI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp .
chairman Bill Gates said on Thursday his company was
holding talks with Finnish telecoms equipment maker
Nokia on joint development of future technology
products.
He told Reuters and Finnish technology magazine IT-Kananva
in an interview that Microsoft was not going to buy part of
Nokia nor would Nokia buy part of Microsoft.
"We will be able to get together in terms of creating some
new products," he said. "There is some good discussion taking
place along those lines."
He said the two companies could combine elements of
Microsoft's Windows CE operating system -- a compact version of
the Windows system -- and its Office products with Nokia's
wireless infrastructure.
Gates said cooperation wit Nokia concerned future products.
"Anything we do together is not for the current generation
of hardware. They will be developed in the future," he said.
"I consider Nokia a very key partner," he said.
Gates earlier told a seminar that Microsoft's previous
vision of 'a computer on every desk' could be rephrased as 'a
computer in every pocket'.
"Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a
wireless device you can carry around... you can connect this
tablet-size PC to the wireless network and get access to the
information of your choice," he said in the summary of a speech.
((Kalevi Nikulainen, Helsinki newsroom, +358-9-680 50
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