Microsoft Married Nokia

Today Microsoft announced that it is partnering with Nokia. This was news that was not exactly shocking or surprising and most people were already discussing it a lot around the web.

• Windows Phone will power Nokia when it comes to smart phones.
• Nokia Maps will become of core importance to Bing Maps. This is a very interesting development as Nokia is quite good with mapping and Bing is losing steam to Google Maps. This sort of cooperation will help Bing maps become a lot more locally relevant.
• Bing will power search on Nokia phones. This is crucial again for Bing for survival. Search in recent times is used more and more through phones.
• Nokia might benefit when their application store is integrated with Microsoft Marketplace.

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