On: Today was the last day of Nokia as we knew it

[HenryMc]

> Given the MS culture, are things going to get slow and bureaucratic?

This is my worry. Nokia moves so quick on everything, and delivers great products. While Microsoft is always slow, and the the products are always missing features.

Hopefully all those Nokia employees will have an effect on Microsoft's culture.

Microsoft makes products I like. Nokia make products I love.

[Touche → HenryMc]

Did Nokia really move quickly? As I recall, it took them a year (from announcing they were going WP) before they released their first phone, the N9 running WP.

[HenryMc → Touche]

It was about 8 months. Deal with Microsoft was announced in February 2011 and Lumia 800 (I have one) and 710 were announced in October.

[Ygg2 → HenryMc]

Given that MS managed to do a Trojan takeover of Nokia, I'm gonna say yes, it's probably gonna end as a Pyrrhic victory for MS.

I mean MS has a track record of screwing up mergers, on par with Yahoo's.

[lttlrck → HenryMc]

If Nokia had moved quickly we wouldn't be reading this.