Microsoft to buy Nokia's mobile phone division

[GURPS]

I want them to give us back the option of unlimited plans.

get sprint

 

[Beta]

That is never going to happen, there is only so much RF spectrum to work with, that is something that most people don't understand.

This is pretty neat, if this sort of thing interests you.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-allochrt.pdf

There is always more RF spectrum the government can sell!

Lawmakers Push for Sale of Government Airwaves : Roll Call Policy

And that could just be the beginning.

Thanks for the link btw, I've been looking for that. I just found a more recent one: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/spectrum_wall_chart_aug2011.pdf

get sprint

Unlimited is useless when I don't have service most of the time

 

[czygvtwkr]

Still, spectrum is a limited quantity.

 

[Tilted]

I beg to differ .... they had some success after stealing bits of CP/M to make DOS

... from there strong armed Apple for desktop Icons and other bits when M$ was developing Windows

... and IMHO have bought or copied pretty much everything else

there is a reason Word is just Word, but Excel is Microsoft Excel ... Viso - bout another company, Solomon Accounting Software etc


can you name ONE Thing M$ did 1st ... the best deal they ever made was supplying DOS to IBM ... IIRC M$ got paid per computer built wither IBM or others installed DOS or NOT ... so ofc OEM's would but DOS and later windows on a PC, they were paying either way ...


once M$ had a base they leveraged that to supply office .... they were the 900 lb gorilla in the room with the mega buck advertising campaign

Microsoft is a master at marketing ... not innovation






while I make my living supporting M$ Products .... I am a long time Apple User [1988] and maybe I am a little biased ... Apple has made some monumental mistakes over the last 30 yrs ... and could have been in Microsoft position - I know thats a big maybe

If I understand you correctly, we're referring to the same thing. The one great / lucky / important / whatever thing that Microsoft did was keeping the right to license the operating system they provided to IBM. That is what their future success would be built on. They did some good things and some bad things after that, but that's what made it all possible.

And yes Apple has made some big mistakes, like any company of that size. But I don't think it would want to be in Microsoft's position right now, the flip of that is more likely to be true.

 

[GURPS]

If I understand you correctly, we're referring to the same thing. The one great / lucky / important / whatever thing that Microsoft did was keeping the right to license the operating system they provided to IBM. That is what their future success would be built on. They did some good things and some bad things after that, but that's what made it all possible.

And yes Apple has made some big mistakes, like any company of that size. But I don't think it would want to be in Microsoft's position right now, the flip of that is more likely to be true.

Aye ....