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I knew the deal Nokia made with Microsoft was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad. Basically, they bet the company on Microsoft's ability to grow WP7, an OS which back then had 2% market share with no real chance of improvement (and so far it still hasn't shown it can do much better).

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I think it's still better than betting it all on a yet-to-be-released in-house operating system (like RIM is doing).

I don't.

Having complete control over the development, able to allocate as many resources as you have towards improvement and complete knowledge as to how the product is coming along > hoping, praying, begging some 3rd party to do the same.

Microsoft cares greatly about the success of WP, however certainly not as much as Nokia does. Microsoft's always fought long battles to eventually succeed in new markets. They've been competing in mobile for what, 15-20 years (CE, PocketPC, win mo, wp, ??)?

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