The Intel/Nokia deal that will see the two companies work on Linux-based software for mobiles is both good and bad news for Microsoft. But it's a real problem for Nokia's own Symbian group. When you consider that the Symbian OS started life as a mobile internet device (MID) operating system and mutated into smartphone software and took more than ten years to get where it is today, this is not the outcome that Nokia could have wanted when it decided to back Symbian. And it leaves Nokia looking a....

