Comment Re:didn't need help (Score 1) 249
by the sound of it, Nokia was doing a fairly good job at destroying themselves anyway, MS did't really need to help.
So you're Microsoft. Your lunch is getting eaten by smaller competitors, but you still have cash lying around and cash coming in. You get a chance to kill one off rather than see it merge with someone else and potentially make them both stronger. In the process you can get a handful of customers and a browse through their IP for any goodies you can license at very agreeable terms. So, do you just wait to see what happens, or drop some of your cash to make something happen?
There is no right or wrong answer, because we'll never know what would have happened if things had played out differently...