Nokia plans to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system

Microsoft and Nokia announced a broad mobile phone partnership today that joins two powerful but lagging companies into mutually reliant allies in the mobile phone market.

As expected, Nokia plans to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) operating system as part of a plan to recover from competitive failings detailed in Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop’s “burning platform” memo. But it’s deeper than just an agreement to install the OS on Nokia’s phones.

Instead, the companies will co-operate tightly under an agreement they described so far as proposed, not final. Windows Phone 7 would become Nokia’s “principal” operating system, and Nokia would help Microsoft develop it and ensure a broad range of phones using it are available globally.

http://www.silicon.com/technology/mobile/2011/02/11/nokia-microsoft-become-windows-phone-7-partners-39746958/?s_cid=103