,vesuvius wrote

@mawcc:Why would this be beneficial? No-one knows if Windows Phone will be a success yet, if Nokia fail to come up with hardware and this all fails, Microsoft have far less to lose. Nokia is not what anyone would call an investment, it is going the way myspace.com went

Success of Windows Phone depends as much on hardware as it does on software, and if Microsoft really want's to succeed it should try everything to also get that second part of the equation right. Of course one strategy is to just let the hardware partners do their job and hope for the best, but the other one would be to take more control of the hardware by doing it yourself. I guess both approaches are valid, I just thought that maybe now would be a good time to rethink the strategy.