Microsoft’s mobile communications business international marketing director John Starkweather confirmed talks were taking place with Nokia but would not confirm when any announcement would be made.

“They obviously have significant investments in Symbian but there are a lot of places where we have significant synergies and we would love to see the day where those synergies would extend completely with Windows Mobile,” he told IT Wire.

While Nokia phones don’t yet have a Windows OS, they do use a range of other Microsoft software. This includes ActiveSynch for connecting to Exchange Servers and the PlayReady DRM technology used to protect purchased music and video content.

Editors Note:: We placed a call to Mr Starkweather and made a request he participate in our podcast as a guest.

Source: IT Wire

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Can you imagine n95 hardware running WM?. That would be cool. Imagine also WM drivers utilizing the 3d chipset power to integrate the N-Gage platform for s60 and that would be even cooler!

Posted by JNGold, Friday, Feb. 8th, 2008

Fugita I hear ya! Microsoft might be listening to the podcast eh?

Posted by David Ciccone, Friday, Feb. 8th, 2008

They heard about Dave's N95 no more Windows Mobile Devices and now they are looking at going WM.. lol

Posted by fugita, Friday, Feb. 8th, 2008

I originally thought this was terrible idea from a consumer's standpoint. Then, the more I thought about it it might not be so bad. WM Standard has been quite stable on my dash.

From M$'s standpoint it makes a lot of sense. It would probably give them more inroads into European users who automatically equate smartphone with Nokia.

Posted by Bittermormon, Friday, Feb. 8th, 2008