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Tech CEOs are getting a lot of attention lately. With the exception of exiting Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the attention is not a good thing. From Carol Bartz's abrupt firing to Andrew Mason's IPO-icing shenanigans, many tech CEOs don't seem to be earning a janitor's salary – much less the inflated compensation they're getting.

So I decided to take a look around and see, who are the worst CEOs in tech? I limited the selection to those CEOs currently (or very near currently) working. So that means that some of the worst tech CEOs in history (see, for instance, SCO's Darl McBride) aren't on the list.

As confirmed earlier today, Nokia is making Windows Phone 7 its primary smartphone platform. First and foremost, this ensures that Nokia and Microsoft remain in the enterprise game. Nokia is much stronger in the enterprise in Europe than in North America, but Apple, RIM and the various Android vendors have been encroaching on that territory (see our post on Good's metrics). Meanwhile, RIM has long bested Microsoft in the enterprise mobility market. By joining forces, Nokia and Microsoft may be able to stave off some of Nokia's European losses and establish a foothold in the US.

"Windows Phone 7 was a second thought for Samsung and HTC; now it's the number-one platform for the number-one phone maker," writes Sascha Segan for PC Magazine. What this means for enterprise developers and decision makers is that the Windows Phone platform isn't going away anytime soon. This should take some uncertainty out of enterprise mobile development. Windows Phone 7 is viable, Symbian is on its way out and Meego probably won't get off the ground.

The Google Enterprise blog has a post tonight about some new features being unveiled that should assuage some of the critics who discount the security of using Google Apps on a mobile device.

The new features permit corporate IT policies to be enforced from the customer's Google Apps console across different mobile devices with the exception of Android smartphones, which will eventually have similar features.

Yesterday news broke that Microsoft and Nokia were announcing a partnership that would take Office outside of Windows Mobile for the first time. But after today's press conference, it's clear that this isn't just Word, Excel, and PowerPoint slapped onto Nokia smartphones: the world's largest cellphone maker will now support a whole slew of key enterprise software from Microsoft.

"This is much more than putting Microsoft Office on Nokia smartphones," said Nokia Devices executive vice president Kai Öistämö. In fact, Office won't even be the first move in this new alliance. Next year Nokia ESeries smartphones will start by including Windows Office Communicator Mobile, which is basically a contacts system. Later additions will be Office, SharePoint access, and Microsoft System Center.

For those who've bemoaned the lack of cross-platform mobile support for Microsoft Office, a ray of hope is on the horizon. Microsoft is expected to announce tomorrow a partnership with Nokia to include Office support on its mobile devices.

Currently the only devices that have native versions of Microsoft Office are those running Windows Mobile. This deal could see that change for the first time. No confirmation of details has been provided, but it's likely that this mobile version will be an accompaniment to Office 2010, along with the Web-based suite.