Microsoft and Nokia announce partnership to bring Microsoft products to Nokia smartphones

It is an interesting partnership as Microsoft is also a player in the smartphone space. I guess they acknowledge that Nokia is clearly the market leader and it is worth it to go after this huge market share while still supporting their Windows Mobile products. I don't think this partnership will have much of an impact on Windows Mobile because WM is still much more prevalent across all US carriers while Nokia has very little influence in the US. This is just a way to make the Office and Microsoft experience easier and more functional across platforms.

With the rising iPhone market share, I wonder if Microsoft will try to work out a partnership with them and RIM as well to get Microsoft Office and communicator products across all mobile smartphones. The Nokia representative stated on the call that this probably will effect RIM more than Apple because of the enterprise nature of the partnership.