While pulling the most panic-stricken PR move ever, Microsoft has guaranteed the death of the Windows Phone OS and proven it should stick to what it knows: desktops.

There will be a lot of stories analyzing the Windows Phone 8 which appears on the heels of Phone 7 hitting the streets. Apparently the most aggressive features on Phone 8 will not run on the latest Nokia Lumia phones, thus not allowing an upgrade for users.

This Nokia-Microsoft thing is rather weird since everyone thought that the connection between the two companies was tight. After all, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop came from Microsoft, where he was in charge of the business division. How he manages to keep his job at Nokia is amazing and we all should assume that Microsoft is doing all this to buy Nokia outright. I guess Redmond would rather buy Nokia in shambles than buy it healthy. It's cheaper.

Nobody has managed to ask either Nokia or Microsoft a simple question: Did Nokia have any sort of long-term warning that this new smartphone OS would not run on the just-released Nokia phones? I was under the assumption that the two companies worked closely together, thus Nokia would come out with a phone coincident with this new OS. The last in the line of Lumia phones, the 900, would have been ideal for this. "If you want the latest and greatest, we have the 900 running Windows Phone 8!"

In fact it appears as if Nokia had zero knowledge of this weird announcement. If they did, then you really have to wonder why Nokia now looks flat-footed.

Let's ask another question: Exactly what is the Microsoft marketing department thinking with this announcement? The Windows Phone 7 platform is getting no traction and Microsoft wants people to pay some attention to it. So they decide to submarine the whole OS with a new version that isn't immediately available? Was this a move to sell more Windows phones by Nokia? Really? Are they that brain-dead?

After pulling this stunt, Microsoft hopes to get other vendors on board with the Windows Phone OS? What company would ever do it? In a panic move, Microsoft has killed Windows Phone. They've killed it dead. You watch.

So the new operating environment will be a desktop computing environment and a high-end pad computer both running what amounts to being a Phone OSMetro.

Wow. I have never seen anything like this, ever. It's as if someone gave a fully loaded automatic pistol to a seven-year-old and told them to go play outside with their friends and didn't expect anything bad to happen.

What's also weird is the fragmented nature of this announcement and how it falls on the heels of both E3 and the Los Angeles event for the launch of the Surface pad machine. There are ways to combine all this. What's the point of running the media ragged? Go here, go there, go here, go there.

This phone situation has now become a full-blown fiasco. Microsoft has got to pull back from this mania. First it must realize that not everything that goes on outside the company is designed to screw the company. Microsoft is still reacting as if it is 1995 and everyone is out to get it. Nowadays, nobody even cares about Microsoft. The company just makes a lot of money and this will continue if it just produces updates for Windows and the Office suite while adding needed features.

The company obviously went nuts over the Apple iPhone taking over the smartphone market long before Microsoft could get any traction whatsoever. Microsoft was also early in the game with tablet computing, to no avail. So what? Instead of just saying, "We were way off base and should leave that market to people who understand it," Redmond goes nuts trying to prove that it is just as smart.

But it is not just as smart. Rolling out Windows Phone 8 and screwing over its only real partner proves that.