Microsoft & Nokia Sign Agreement Early-Acutely Aware of Time Pressure

Two recent mobile platform analyst projections have placed Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform as a solid if distant second place behind Android in 2015. This is difficult to imagine even among Windows Phone fans like me given the platform’s distant fourth place position in 2011. The most obvious interpretation is that the 2015 projections are based on the assumption that Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia will be very successful. And, yet, no one has seen any indication of exactly what Nokia will deliver or when it will be available.