Operation Elop
Operation Elop Operation Elop The nal years of Nokia’s mobile phones The little green spy boat seen from the old Nokia House in the Keilalahti bay, Espoo, Finland. Photo by Jari Ijäs on December 8, 2010, with a Nokia C7. On October 8, 2017, Joe Belore of Microsoft casually announced the death of Windows Phone. In a series of tweets he explained that Microsoft will continue to support the Windows Phone (and Windows 10 Mobile) platform but “building new features/hw aren’t the focus”. That was the end of Microsoft’s smartphone endeavor. Fast rewind to 2010. On September 10, 2010, Nokia of Finland replaced its Chief Executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who had been at Nokia for 30 years, with 1 Operation Elop Stephen Elop, a 46-year-old native of Ancaster, Ontario, and the head of Microsoft’s business software unit, in a bid to turn around the company’s struggling smartphone lineup and stop a decline in its market share in the U.S. On February 11, 2011, Nokia and Microsoft announced plans for a broad strategic partnership to build a new global mobile ecosystem with Windows Phone. [1] Under the proposed partnership Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, and contribute its expertise on hardware design, language support, and help bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points, market segments, and geographies. On September 2, 2013, Microsoft announced that it would buy Nokia’s Devices and Services business and license its patents for $7.2 billion. Also as part of the deal, Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop was announced to eventually go back to Microsoft and lead an expanded devices team.
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