Microsoft buys Phone division of Nokia

These days Apple hunts for small, entrepreneurial promising to acquire, while Microsoft has been dedicated to big-game hunting acquiring the division of Nokia mobile devices and services, including patents, for 7.17 billion-dollar capital.

The news comes very close to the message that the current CEO, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft will leave in the next 12 months, and this may give way to Elop, Nokia CEO and former Microsoft, to return home with the highest office. It is said that it will end well, but it seems certain that many manager’s Relief Nokia will move to Redmond.

The Company in the hands Of Bill Gates was born and grew around software and services during recent years is getting closer and closer to the hardware. Some of the experiments done in the home, such as Zune, were a failure, but there are also positive as those of the accessories and even the world’s most Xboxes.

The Surface tablet has not been a borne fruit, with lower profits than costs, and only Nokia could provide a solid foundation and reputation of quality (at least on the front phone) to share with the right look.

Will be to understand the position of other producers that use Windows Phone, which already suffered a certain predominance of Nokia due to the name and to the partnership and that today will even more in the second floor. In Redmond to take to reassure: OEMs will not touch. Well, now it remains to be seen whether they will not be walking away.