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Nokia fights Microsoft with help of EU bureaucracy April 06, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. Nokia joined IBM, Oracle, Red Hat and RealNetworks in effort to fight Microsoft through bureaucratic processes of European Union (EU)! Nokia, that itself uses Windows XP and MS Office as standard desktop software for each Nokia employee, hopes to stop Microsoft's entrance into cell phone industry by supporting antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation. 
Interestingly current hostile approach of Nokia to free market has long traditions: 
On picture above you can see, from the left: Lenin, who once took refuge in Finland - a country where Nokia is headquarted and mostly located, Kekkonen - a Finnish pro-Soviet dictator, who ruled Finland for over 30 years and last, not least Jorma Ollila - a long-year CEO of Nokia. Nokia owns 49% in Symbian that has dominating position in smartphone market globally - over 90% - so it is particularly strange that Nokia tries to fight competition with such underhanded means as bureaucracy! The main point of this case is to force Microsoft to open its products to competition. However from the point of view of Nokia, that is not producing any products for Windows Mobile it is indeed strange that it wants to fight Microsoft this way... and as of now the only result is that Microsoft will be forced to sell Windows XP in EU without Windows Media Player (that however can be easily downloaded from Internet anyway)... but if this situation will continue it is possible that Microsoft will be forced to strip also Windows Mobile of Windows Media Player...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 9 Comments ]
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