Nokia - heading for the cold Atlantic waters?

If you are reading this post, you must have read what Mr. Elop of Nokia had "honestly" stated a few days ago about Nokia's current state of affairs. He compared the company to a burning rig and for life they had to take a plunge that could either kill them or miraculously rescue.
The plunge is to build devices for Windows Phone 7 platform. I had been hoping that Nokia would rather fork or create devices for Android. The strategy sounds just dangerous. In the 90s PC manufacturers such as IBM, Dell, HP etc stuck with Windows and made huge profits/sales. May be the same works for Nokia. But the markets and consumer mindset has changed drastically. During PC days consumers just wanted something cheap and easy to use. There weren't too many alternatives except for geeky or enthusiast OSs. But these days an average phone user wants more of everything. Also, Windows Phone OS does not seem to have the perfect application/developer/platform ecosystem as iOS or the Android. For me it seems that Nokia is heading for the cold waters.. Good luck!

Windows 7 vs Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Let's kill the suspense. Ubuntu is the winner, hands down or is at least on a virtual machine.
I installed Ubuntu and Windows 7 on oracle virtual box, on Windows XP.
Windows 7 (in its vanilla form, extreme edition) has a wait icon on mouse pointer on everything I do, and visible lag on opening anything.
Ubuntu, with all bells and whistles turned on (compiz/etc) works extremely fast and feels snappy.
I wish if some company properly designed and marketed laptops with Ubuntu for end-users and provided appropriate support!
Microsoft and Apple would have to run for their money on OS market.