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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (28926)	4/24/2012 9:23:42 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 34857

Nokia and Windows 8... Windows 8 Release Preview coming in the first week of June By Sam Byford on April 23, 2012 11:59 pm theverge.com Microsoft has said that the Release Preview of Windows 8 will be coming in the first week of June, confirming previous rumors. The announcement was made at the Windows 8 Developer Days conference in Japan. We still don't know when the final consumer version of Windows 8 will be released, but it looks like things could still be on track for the rumored October launch. Details are thin on the ground as to what the Release Preview will feature — we heard before that it could expand Marketplace support to 33 more countries, but if the Consumer Preview's success is anything to go by a lot of people will be counting down the days until the new build's release.

To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (28926)	4/24/2012 9:24:26 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 34857

Nokia ‘Lumia 900' Sees 1M Q2 Run Rate, Says Town Hall blogs.barrons.com By Tiernan Ray Nokia‘s ( NOK) “Lumia 900,” the smartphone developed with Microsoft ( MSFT), and which went on sale a few weeks ago exclusively at AT&T ( T), is “selling at a run rate in excess of 1 million units for Q2, 2012,” writes Jamie Townsend with Town Hall Investment Research today in a note to clients. That’s a good thing, he writes. “In our view, this would significantly exceed AT&T’s and street estimates for the 900 and indicate that the Nokia/Microsoft alliance is showing early signs of success.” Writing that Lumia’s “share momentum” will be “a very gradual progress at best,” and that Nokia’s Q1 report last week showed “very little in the way of encouragement that the company is on the verge of a recovery,” nevertheless, Townsend is sticking by a Buy recommendation he assigned on March 30th. The recovery, if there is to be any, hangs entirely on Lumia, he writes, and Townsend cites data from research firm ABI Research, which in turn is based on feedback from a Windows Phone developer: In this regard, we were intrigued by a recent analysis from Aapo Markkanen, Senior Analyst with ABI Research. In a brief Insight, Aapo alluded to a recent blog post from an independent app developer, FourBros Studio. In the post, FourBros highlighted its recent success with Taptitude, a free game on WP7. It further highlights how the app’s user base was split among different WP7 devices over the last thirty days. Aapo then took the data, made some assumptions and came up with the conclusion that Lumia 900 sales at AT&T are tracking at a level in excess of 1 million for Q2, 2012. Should this be accurate, we believe it would significantly exceed street expectations for the Lumia 900 and be the first real indicator of potential success for Nokia and Microsoft. Nokia shares today are down 5 cents, or 1%, at $3.65.