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If Microsoft can stop themselves from another Sidekick episode, they might actually manage to make a phone for once. (Assuming they're trying for a phone) But having lived through the Ballmer years (WRT Linux/FOSS), I remain skeptical of any Microsoft participation in Android.


Did you know Microsoft sold over 50 million phones last quarter [1]? They know how to make phones...

[1] 10.5 million Lumia smartphones, 39.7 million Nokia-branded dumbphones -- http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/hardware-surprisingl...


So you really mean that Microsoft sold 10 million phones last quarter? Nokia knows how to make dumbphones, nothing new there. That those appear on MS's balance sheet does not imply anything about the capabilities of MS.


They don't just show up on Microsoft's balance sheet, the part of Nokia that makes them is now part of Microsoft.


No true Microsoft fallacy? Ha




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