In the best of all possible worlds, Microsoft would've spent the last three years building a solid mobile operating system, while making nips and tucks to the desktop that we all know and love to swear at. Instead, we got Windows 8/8.1/Update 1,neither fish nor fowl, toaster nor refrigerator.
In a completely different universe, Microsoft delivered Windows Phone 8 -- released at the end of October -- which bears at best superficial similarities to Windows 8. Microsoft not only squandered its developers' efforts on a desktop/laptop/tablet/hybrid/server design that nobody wants to buy. It also pulled the rug out from under the real mobile folks, the ones developing for Windows Phone. Now the quacking ugly duckling has come home to roost.
Nokia just released its financial report for Q4 2013 and Full Year 2013 (PDF), and the results for Windows Phone are so bad that they aren't even broken out -- swept under the rug of "discontinued operations" as, presumably, the sale of Nokia's phone unit to Microsoft should complete soon. The most information we get in the financial report goes like this:
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