One good reason to pay Microsoft "royalties"

[amenditman]

Microsoft spending $44 million in advertising for Nokia and Samsung Windows Mobile phones.http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/News/12934/Mi...into_Mango.aspx

[sunrat]

I'm underwhelmed. iOS and Android are at the home straight and MS is just out of the starting gate. With MS history in mobile devices, I'm not going to lay down a bet on them at any odds.

[amenditman]

I'm underwhelmed. iOS and Android are at the home straight and MS is just out of the starting gate. With MS history in mobile devices, I'm not going to lay down a bet on them at any odds.

Uncle Billy worked extensively to make mobile devices work out, tablets and phones. Always pretty much a failure for Microsoft by any standard.Now we have little cousin Stevie making the big push to break into the market.My confidence level about Microsoft making anything more than a small splash is zero. Bill has 3 times the business sense that Steve has. If Bill couldn't make it work out, no one can within the framework of their organization. This is a job for a lean, mean, small, new, innovative group. Maybe someone is working on it in their parent's garage and we'll hear about it in a few years when they take over the world like Gates and Jobs have.