With today’s webOS purchase, HP gave notice that they’ll do their best to ditch Microsoft in every way. HP is poised to ship PC’s without paying a Microsoft tax for the first time in many years. You could find yourself running Windows on HP computers in a virtual OS session, within the HP WebOS desktop. That’s how Apple’s Mac owners use Windows today. Three magic words: No Windows Tax. Soon.
This Friday Microsoft and Nokia are supposed to announce a joint venture of some kind. A future version of the Windows Phone 7 mobile OS software that will be tightly coupled to phones designed and built by Nokia is on deck. I like to think of the new venture as “Microkia” and their new product as the “Phune” because I love rhyming, and that rhymes with Zune. I won’t call it a certain fail, because I know that billions of dollars can buy success.