I wonder how many man-years Microsoft has spent on failed UIs? (and, yes, they've had successful ones too).
Nokia had a broken development process. The answer clearly was to surrender and turn the company over to ... another company with a long history of broken processes.
NOTE: I'm not saying everything in Microsoft is broken by any means. Microsoft has had processes which produced Windows ME and Windows Vista ... and they fixed their process and produced some better things. That might be evidence Nokia might have been able to do something similar.
Nokia had a broken development process. The answer clearly was to surrender and turn the company over to ... another company with a long history of broken processes.
NOTE: I'm not saying everything in Microsoft is broken by any means. Microsoft has had processes which produced Windows ME and Windows Vista ... and they fixed their process and produced some better things. That might be evidence Nokia might have been able to do something similar.