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Today in Open Source: The Nokia deal may have killed Windows. Plus: The $45 CuBox-i Mini-PC runs Android and Linux, and should games be ported to Linux via Wine?
I tend to agree with Slate's take on this, but it shouldn't shock any of us that Microsoft is having to change their business model. For far too long they've coasted on the old one, with Windows and Office being their main cash-cows. Those two products will still generate significant amounts of money going forward, probably for a long time.
But the growth is in mobile, not in desktop computers. And that is where Microsoft's current strategy with Windows phone has utterly failed. Just making the software and then licensing it out isn't enough when you factor in Android's no-cost option for mobile hardware vendors; and Apple's design expertise, bulging app store, and devoted fan base.
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