The recent acquisition of
Nokia by Microsoft is finally going to come to a finish within the
coming weeks as Microsoft will usher in a new name for Nokia, which
they decidedly called “Microsoft Mobile Oy”. The name itself is
not very enticing, I mean, come on! “Oy”? Really? Sounds like a
perfume of some sort. Anyway, being lame as they already are,
Microsoft plans to integrate their present mobile technology with the
former Nokia mobile phone product lines and “try” to compete with
Google's already dominating Android technology that has already
become one of the world's best mobile OS. Recent years had seen
Microsoft suffer substantial losses in their sales of Windows
operating systems that if it was not for those deals that they made
with hardware manufacturers, they would have been sprawled on the
gutter a long, long time ago.
Microsoft has started to
loose it's dominance in the OS market as many users are slowly
turning to other operating systems such as Linux and Android, and the
recent upsurge of the Raspberry Pi micro computer has dug Microsoft a
bit deeper into their graves. Microsoft has always tried to become a
dominant company in terms with marketing their operating systems with
such zest that people often buy their products because of their
advertising, well in fact, most of their products fail to meet the
expectations of their users. Recently, Microsoft has just announced
that they are completely dropping their product support of their
Windows XP OS, which is considered as the only competent operating
system that they ever made. This is to make certain that people will
be “forced” to shift to their Windows 7 and Windows 8 OS (which
is really a headache compared with XP).
“Two Fools Dancing on a
Hill”, that is what most technology analysts describe the
Microsoft-Nokia merger as both companies tried their very best to
come out with a truly unique, but speculative assessment on what they
thought will improve their business. First off was Microsoft, yes
they did lead the OS market, but since they were too busy earning
rather than focusing on the security flaws of their operating
systems, they just thought that creating newer versions of their
operating systems would take off the problems of the older products
that they made. Unfortunately, Microsoft's security flaws on their
operating systems are as crappy as they were before...even worse.
They even tried to dominate the search engine market in which the
failed miserably as Google was so keen in knowing that most of the
servers in the world run Linux as their operating parameters which
leads to the question, does anybody still use MSN nowadays?
Today, even Microsoft's
Internet Explorer is no longer considered a browser engine since it
is so crappy that Microsoft keeps on imposing this on their
operating system which earned the irk of most people who use their
OS. Nokia on the other hand tried to create a new line of smart
phones that would compete with the prevailing Android OS,
particularly their Lumia line which is really a big disappointment
on Nokia's part as well. Today, there are Nokia phone models who are
using Android as their operating system, in which the famous
proverbial saying goes...”If You Can't Beat Them...Join Them”,
unfortunately, it was too late for Nokia as well as they have already
suffered more than they gambled for which resulted in them selling
themselves off to Microsoft.
For such reasons as greed
or pride, we will never be sure what fate awaits for these two former
giants as they anticipate the world's response to their merger.
“Personally, I think it's too late for both of them” quipped one
financial analyst as he browses with his Android phone, saying that
the world economy focuses on things that serve it's purpose and
aesthetics is really not relevant anymore in regards to technology
but the simplicity and logical reason of functionality is what urges
users to shift from one technology to another. We might as well call
them “Mediocresoft” and “Fokia”.
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