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That kills my hopes for a Nokia Android phone.

Also, Elop seems like the least interesting character to succeed Ballmer. What does he bring to the table? What has he done? Guy looks like a careerist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Career

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Oouh.. that reads like he managed to get every company he worked for to fade away, go bancrupt or loose competitive strength in a very short time. This. Or he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, very often.

    * DEAD: Lotus Development Corporation
    * DEAD: Boston Chicken
    * SOLD: Macromedia's
    * ALIVE: Juniper Networks
    * DECLINING: Microsoft Dynamics

I don't know this guy, but if that's the best they can get..

> DECLINING: Microsoft Dynamics

Ummm, Microsoft dynamics has grown revenue every year for the past 4 years. But hey don't let the facts get int eh way of your rage:)

http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

I don't know of anyone who blames Boston Chicken's IT on it's bankruptcy. He was their CIO and I doubt he had any influence on their notorious franchising strategy. Plus they're also still alive after rebranding as Boston Market, and while I couldn't find any location numbers, they boast of serving 15 million pounds of mashed potatoes and 80 million pieces of cornbread a year.

He was per Wikipedia "a director of consulting" at Lotus ... again, not an area that determined their decline and fall.

I'm not sure that was ever likely with Elop at the helm, but Nokia is now out of the phone business until at least 2016.

I believe the press release only speaks about the brand. There does not seem to be any limitations for Nokia to enter into phone business. They would just need to have some other brand.

Maybe Jolla? :D

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Yup:

Upon the closing of the transaction, Nokia would be restricted from licensing the Nokia brand for use in connection with mobile device sales for 30 months and from using the Nokia brand on Nokia's own mobile devices until December 31, 2015.

MS bought their present design team and fab facilities, but what's left of Nokia can reenter the device business in 2016.

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