My advice to Nokia - run as fast as you can! Those who make “deals” with Microsoft always end up losing.
This advice was worth millions to Nokia, but they won’t take it.
Thank God they are not stupid enough t take your advise. Nokia/Symbian has been losing market share in smart-phones for years. They need an excellent, modern smart-phone operating system. Windows Phone 7 is that operating system (Samsung, Motorola, HTC etc are already too strongly entrenched in the Android space). Your advise will end up costing Nokia billions of dollars in eventual losses. With Win Phone 7, Nokia gets in at the beginning with everyone else. Seems like a very good deal to me.