Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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Re: Nokia acquired by Microsoft
#2Well, this makes all the speculation about Elop succeeding Ballmer that much more interesting.
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#3Gee, we didn't see that coming.
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#4Wow, interesting timing. I wonder if Elop will end up in the running for CEO of MS as part of this.
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#5So Elop was in fact a Trojan Horse?
Wonder what this does to the already strained MSFT vendor relationships. You could now almost guarantee vendors will start to completely dump Windows on ARM and possibly even look for alternatives to Windows x86.
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#6msft is buying "Nokia’s Devices & Services". nokia does other things as well, for example, nokia-siemens-network (NSN) is a significant player in the EPC (enhanced-packet-core) market as well...
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#7That was more or less expected...
But I think it is really sad too. I really enjoyed the pre-Microsoft Nokia, I had account in their dev forums, and loved their SDKs, community, Sybian, whatnot.
To me, when they suddenly dropped Sybian while they were still ahead AND expanding in some markets (like Brazil, Russia...) and switched to MS, it was really sad, and I felt like they dropped the ball.
Their Lumia phones DO pull some interesting hardware sometimes, but it was never the same.
Now with MS outright buying them, not only the ball is dropped, but kicked way out of the stadium.
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#8What else is part of Nokia other than their 'Nokia Devices & Services'?
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#9Re: Nokia acquired by Microsoft
#10msft is buying "Nokia’s Devices & Services". nokia does other things as well, for example, nokia-siemens-network (NSN) is a significant player in the EPC (enhanced-packet-core) market as well...
Yep, this looks more like Sony buying Ericsson out (and leaving Ericsson with a very nice, profitable core business)