Looking at the positive side (seems like kicking people while they're down is a common recreational sport in Obamaland, and even here in FR)
Microsoft probably is the only company with the financial resources to pull it off, resuscitating Nokia.
And personally I think that's not Microsoft's brightest move. IMO they should have found a more healthy partner. By saying that MS should "throw Nokia under the bed" I meant they should stop expecting for a nearly-dead foreign company to save them from irrelevance.
My comment wasn't about "kicking people while they're down", it was about the advisability (for Microsoft) of spending billions more dollars trying to get Nokia to be a help rather than a hindrance, not to mention wasting more time that isn't there to waste. Microsoft is years behind the hand-held curve already, and it is way too late to wait for someone who's down to get up again.
Microsoft needs to be resuscitating itself, not foreign companies. I hope they're not too far gone -- it would be a damn shame for an important and valuable American company to blow their chance at the hand-held market.