Microsoft to Buy Nokia's Device Business for Over $7 Billion

[JMcEntegart]

Microsoft is paying billions of dollars for the Finnish company.

Microsoft to Buy Nokia's Device Business for Over $7 Billion : Read more

 

[nekromobo]

So Elop was the moleman everyone excepted him to be..

 

[thomasch]

So the camel has finally taken over the tent ! This was on card for a long time and saving grace for nokia. Cannot say the same for MS yet.

 

[back_by_demand]

A phone company with true innovation, not just round corners and not much more than what they spent on Skype - good business

 

[jhansonxi]

Not shocked. The Elopcalypse was foretold in the days of yore. Maybe AOL will be the next target so they can prop up Bing.

 

[CaptainTom]

Facepalm. Here I was hoping MS would smarten up and focus on what they do well. Unless they make a line of phones that runs full Windows 8, I have no reason to ever bother with their mobile OS...

 

[jhansonxi]

I wonder what the chances of Elop replacing Ballmer are. Would that be an improvement?

 

[nevilence]

luckily i havent touched a nokia in years, so i am not upset, probably never touch another now though =P

 

[de5_Roy]

worst kept secret after elop went to nokia...

 

[aggroboy]

Nokia has a truckload of patents since the 2G days, Microsoft sic them on any mobile device competitor.

 

[sivaseemakurthi]

Seems more like Elop was 'sent' to Nokia than he joined Nokia.

 

[_Brute_Force_]

drive it to the ground, then buy it dirt cheap.

Good strategy.

 

[ojas]

Elop is next M$ CEO. I bet.

 

[mariusmotea]

Seems like Elop was working more for Microsoft than Nokia.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Facepalm. Here I was hoping MS would smarten up and focus on what they do well. Unless they make a line of phones that runs full Windows 8, I have no reason to ever bother with their mobile OS...

Once Intel gets its Atoms CPUs to a decent place we will see that happen.

Until then we will only get either a mobile OS or a ARM version of 8 since AMR while being highly efficient is not nearly as powerful as x86.

 

[de5_Roy]

if new atoms fail, the wintel alliance might break and a new ms+qualcomm alliance might begin (windragon?). or, if ms is really stupid, they might ally with nvidia *snicker*.

 

[Aaron Briggs]

Intel needs to hurry up and get faster better Atoms. I would love to see X86 OS's on phones.

 

[azz156]

i wouldn't mind a x86 phone but to be honest arm has won that market. its the windows rt argument in reverse. what good is a x86 phone with no apps when i can get a arm phone that has millions. my prediction is a intel phone is going to be the windows rt of the phone world.

 

[tomfreak]

x86 windows NT phone is pretty deadly combo, this is especially true when all ur old apps from 10-20yrs ago work right out of the box. Now it is to wait if Intel actually can pull this off.

WP8 is not a bad OS, but it certainly need x86 to push further.

 

[mman74]

Basically they drove themselves into the ground by sticking with Windows. It's only fitting that they get bailed out by them - because that's exactly what this is. To think they were numero uno when Google virtually begged them to launch Android. Oh how the might have fallen!

 

[azz156]

i wouldn't mind a x86 phone but to be honest arm has won that market. its the windows rt argument in reverse. what good is a x86 phone with no apps when i can get a arm phone that has millions. my prediction is a intel phone is going to be the windows rt of the phone world.

 

[abbadon_34]

All this talk of an x86 phone, reminds me of the Ipaq and PocketPC. 20 years ago a device (phone for those models with a SIM card) running a basic windows os with no carrier bullshit, same as a pc.

 

[w8gaming]

MS getting its own mobile hardware division is a good move, of a series of steps that try to establish the late comer Windows as a significant mobile OS. But MS still have to realize they have priced their products badly and this is the main reason why their app store cannot take off. Sell the device cheap, cover the basic features (email, browsing, social networking, video, music, phone), get a huge installed base and then wait for the developers to write the apps. Continue to force Office down everyone's throat and then justify their products should be priced premium is a sure way to lose to Apple and Google.

 

[f-gomes]

You guys in the US cannot begin to imagine how it feels for an European to see this outcome. You'd have to have lived here for the last 15 years to understand why this is very, very sad news - though everyone knew nokia's final demise was coming.

 

[Pratyush Rohilla]

Its mean nokia is no any more..?? but i can't understanding that what;s the problem with nokia what is the need for do this. but any way..;

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