Nokia S60 mobile phone users in 11 countries can now download the new Windows Live suite from http://www.nokia.com/windowslive, which provides access to Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger,which provides access to Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts and Spaces, says a Microsoft press release. S40 users will have to wait until next year. It says:
Initially the service will be available as a free trial, and then customers in select markets wanting to continue using the service may be asked to pay a monthly fee.
Microsoft's Nokia's Phil Holden has more details and nine screen shots on his Live Spaces blog.
The LiveSide News blog has also covered the story, and that's where I found the link to Phil Holden.
It's hard to guess whether or not this idea is going to get any traction: it could easily come to nothing. However, if the established phone companies see Apple and/or Google as a threat, this seems quite likely to encourage at least a few of them to get closer to Microsoft. (My enemy's enemy is my friend.)
Apple's sales of iPhones are tiny compared to Nokia's: Nokia has about a third of the world market, shipping 91.1 million phones in the first quarter of 2007, and it could ship 400 million this year. Getting on a small proportion of Nokia's next billion mobiles would help Microsoft in the phone business, and boost Windows Live. And it certainly needs a boost at the moment.
Initially the service will be available as a free trial, and then customers in select markets wanting to continue using the service may be asked to pay a monthly fee.
Microsoft's Nokia's Phil Holden has more details and nine screen shots on his Live Spaces blog.
The LiveSide News blog has also covered the story, and that's where I found the link to Phil Holden.
It's hard to guess whether or not this idea is going to get any traction: it could easily come to nothing. However, if the established phone companies see Apple and/or Google as a threat, this seems quite likely to encourage at least a few of them to get closer to Microsoft. (My enemy's enemy is my friend.)
Apple's sales of iPhones are tiny compared to Nokia's: Nokia has about a third of the world market, shipping 91.1 million phones in the first quarter of 2007, and it could ship 400 million this year. Getting on a small proportion of Nokia's next billion mobiles would help Microsoft in the phone business, and boost Windows Live. And it certainly needs a boost at the moment.
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