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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (523)	2/5/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Lazlo Pierce	Respond to of 34857

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 50 248, fax +358-9-680 2284, helsinki.newsroom@reuters.com))>>