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Mortis · 02-13-2011, 06:09 AM

So will a partnering between MS and a cell phone company be a failure again?

Cell phone companies and MS have had partnerships in the past, in 2003 it was Motorola, anyone have a Motorola "Blackberry Killer" Q? Again in 2005 MS and Palm got together and that again ended badly. My favorite one; MS and Nortel, they got together in 2006 and in 2008 Nortel went bust, coincidence, perhaps

"An alliance between Microsoft and Nortel announced in July 2006 … included three new joint solutions to dramatically improve business communications by breaking down the barriers between voice, e-mail, instant messaging, multimedia conferencing and other forms of communication”.

What happened? Nortel declared bankruptcy two years later.

02-13-2011, 06:09 AM	#376
Mortis Canucklehead in Malaysia Posts: 1,633 Karma: 3127774 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Device: iPhone, Kindle	Being a partner with Microsoft can't be all that bad, just ask the folks at Nortel :) So will a partnering between MS and a cell phone company be a failure again? Cell phone companies and MS have had partnerships in the past, in 2003 it was Motorola, anyone have a Motorola "Blackberry Killer" Q? Again in 2005 MS and Palm got together and that again ended badly. My favorite one; MS and Nortel, they got together in 2006 and in 2008 Nortel went bust, coincidence, perhaps "An alliance between Microsoft and Nortel announced in July 2006 … included three new joint solutions to dramatically improve business communications by breaking down the barriers between voice, e-mail, instant messaging, multimedia conferencing and other forms of communication”. What happened? Nortel declared bankruptcy two years later.