No real surprise here that Microsoft is (indirectly) paying Nokia upwards of $1 billion to get Windows Phone on their devices, but this is humorous:

Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows used in its phones

It’s so ridiculous that Microsoft is sticking with this licensing system. You can license Android, the market leader now, for free. Microsoft? There’s a fee. For each phone. Who in their right mind would do that?

Wait — let me rephrase. Who in their right mind not getting $1 billion in free advertising/development costs and not run by a recently departed Microsoft executive would do that?

Unless this Nokia gamble pays off — and in a big way — the answer will be no one. 

Microsoft just doesn’t know another way beyond the Windows/Office licensing way. And that’s just not the right way in mobile. Didn’t they learn anything from Windows Mobile?