[dfried]

Anyone doing strategic business with Microsoft would do well to remember what they did to Nokia.

[TheRealPomax]

You mean waste a few billion on buying a company that couldn't compete with the market anymore because the iphone made "even an idiot should be able to use this thing, and it should be able to do pretty much everything" a baseline expectation with an OS/software experience to match? Nokia failed Nokia, and then Microsoft gave it a shot. And they also couldn't make it work.

(sure, that glosses over the whole Elop saga, but Microsoft didn't buy a Nokia-in-its-prime and killed it. They bought an already failing business and even throwing MS levels of resources at it couldn't turn it around)

[muststopmyths]

Man, as a windows phone mourner the only disagreement i have with this comment is that they threw anywhere near MS level of resources at Nokia.

Satya never wanted the acquisition and nuked WP as soon as he could.

[ahoka]

I can see why people would think that, but Microsoft did not buy Nokia.

[SSLy]

They did bought the (then) richer half of the company. The other is now trying to get out of the rot.

[TheRealPomax]

time to revisit the news from back in the day, because they very much did, and the details are an exercise in "wow, how much do you want to split hairs?".