Microsoft launches bid for Dubailand as part of ‘things that were big in 2005’ nostalgia trip

DUBAI: Following it’s $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia’s handset unit revealed this morning, Microsoft has now announced that it would be tabling a bid for Dubai’s Dubailand entertainment complex.

“Like Nokia’s phones, Dubailand was all the rage in 2005,” said the software giant’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, in a statement. “Who couldn’t have been impressed by its plans to amass the world’s largest collection of theme parks together, or the gorgeous artist’s impressions of the glittering, futuristic hotels? And just like Nokia, who back then would have predicted that less than 10 years later it would have become largely forgotten.”

While exact details of the bid haven’t been revealed, rumours were circulating this morning that Microsoft was also looking to buy controlling stakes in Crocs, nu rave band The Klaxons and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s marriage.