That 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.