Long before the iPhone became an integral part of daily chatter within the development community and Google's Android was being considered the next big thing, there was Symbian.
The recent announcement of Nokia buying out Symbian and making it open source is only going to intensify this battle for mobile supremacy that is currently taking place between giants in the industry: Apple and Google.
Is Microsoft a Sleeping Mobile OS Giant?
You know what's peculiar about this competition for mobile supremacy? Microsoft seems to be nowhere to be found. It's especially strange that Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system is currently the operating system of choice for PDA smartphones, but the company isn't going out of its way to get involved in open-source.
Sure, Microsoft will likely develop some of its most popular applications like the Office suite for the open source platforms like Google Android, but all is quiet in the world regarding Microsoft's own mobile platform, Windows Mobile, which is close to its seventh revision.
For the time being, we can dream, right?
