So much of NOK's future depends on Windows 8... that, while not thinking the other risks don't matter, it makes sense to consider the issues at NOK as subsidiary functions of their choices re integration with Microsoft...
I'm sure someone must have a "big picture" historical perspective on Windows releases versus projections...
A quick survey (using Google) shows...
It had been projected for release in 2011: everything-microsoft.com
Then, it was projected for April of 2012: businessinsider.com
Note, particularly, the "update" at the bottom of the link, and consider that in context of MSFT's view of the risks inherent in the Elopisms by which NOK has been brutalized ?
Seems easy enough to leap from just those... to considering that NOK's CURRENT difficulties are obvious products both of MSFT culture... and of MSFT's failures in "timely" releases of new products...
From a device makers perspective... it seems curious that timing of release dates for disparate devices such as new desktops, tablets, and smartphones... would be all slaved to the externally driven coordination of the OS release schedule of a third party ?
Well known, of course, that MSFT's release schedule is a driver (or, perhaps, given the evidence, more the opposite of a driver) of other things...
Are other hardware makers across the device spectrum still being similarly held back by the MSFT "issues" with never having had a train leave the station on time ?
Just seems reasonable to me, given how much is riding on it, that the "focus" here would expand to consider more detail in the FACT in the specifics that are "the obstacle" ?
We need to project a release date... first... before being able to project that it will make a difference ?
Then, when that happens... we can proceed to determining whether or not the market cares ?
Windows 7 didn't thrill many consumers...
I think I'm arriving at a recognition that it makes ZERO sense to slave smart phone producers fortunes to the drivers inherent in Windows release schedules...
Why can't MSFT integrate smart phone OS updates with their larger OS markets... in a way that has them NOT killing their customers... ???
Currently looking like the market imposed penalty for choosing MSFT as your OS provider is death.
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