Microsoft will not be building their own Windows Phones.
There were some rumours from ‘analysts’ that Microsoft were going to be making their own Windows Phone, much to the detriment of Nokia. This was based after Microsoft kept harping on about the importance of the close ties between Hardware and Software in their new Microsoft Surface.
Well, apparently they aren’t and this is denied by a Microsoft executive and retweeted by Nokia UK PR.
Here is the article link: http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/240002635
Still, information week reiterates that some analysts believe MS will make a move for Nokia.
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Well, the Microsoft denials don’t really mean much. Microsoft had also denied that they’d be building a tablet, because they didn’t want to spook their OEM partners.
But now we have the Microsoft Surface, so there you go.
If more than analyst, not just a single one, is saying they have sources that Microsoft is thinking about building their own phone, there’s probably at least some grain of truth to that.
Should Nokia be worried? You bet your ass they should. If there is a Microsoft branded Windows Phone, it’s lights out in Espoo.
Curious, do you have a link where Microsoft denied this? Lots of fishy things going on.
AT this stage it makes sense for Microsoft to deny it. But Microsoft will make its own branded handsets. Nokia are really really in trouble.
Remember that Microsoft, is paying every single wp8 handset provider to produce handset for the platform.
Killing nokia was its plan and its more or less succeeded.
It’s more like stuff like this:
http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/30/microsoft-mundie-tablets/
As recently as last year, Microsoft was bad-mouthing tablets, calling them essentially a fluke.
Note that, a product like the Surface has been probably been in development for a couple of years, so Microsoft was playing a double game.
Who’s to say they’re not again. It’s Microsoft; it’s what they do. They already shanked Nokia in the lower back by announcing the incompability of current Lumias with WP8, months before new phones arrive, and Osborned the entire current line up of Lumias on store shelves.
I agree with you Johnny…It really makes sense to Microsoft to kill the Nokia….So they announced the Wp8 which is incompatible with current Lumia’s family. Even they used Nokia made prototype for presentation.
As Symbian is already dead, it sales are poor. By this, now current Lumia ranges also will not be sold.
How come Elop didn’t stop Microsoft to announce the WP8, when there are really months away for the actual phone launch. I sense some bad smell.
Will Nokia really be dead soon…:(?!
Well I don’t remenber MS deniying anything, but in fact, that doesn’t meant nothing… If they were building their own phone, maybe they don’t wanna you to see it, until they have all things clear… In early 2000 MS wasn’t so much eager to enter to the game console world, well, know everybody know 360 (it has become the sinonymous of game console, the same way that most people called PS every game console, when the PSX was the King)
Yeah…
Some people were killing Android when Google bought Motorola.
Plus everyone forgot that Google had its own phone…
Nokia would have done very bad deal signing a contract where to opposite party would be allowed to sell their own device.
Nokia is not only giving MS devices, Maps, death of Linux platforms, death or mobile Qt, sales channel, localization knowhow, operator billing, exclusivity to Pureview,… They are also giving them mobile software knowledge eg. as stated by Elop when talking about the low end WP opportunities, where ‘our teams have found ways’.
In such a one sided partnership and one sided OEM relationship it would be madness to allow the other party to compete.
Madness is Stephen’s second name. If there was such provision in the agreement, we would know about it. However, MS can partner with other HW manufacturers, so whenever they can make phones themselves or not doesn’t change the situation that much. It’s just small testament to what magnificent deal Elop made when he wasn’t able to secure even this little concession.
MSFT still own Danger, they must be doing something..
Kin 2?
Msft run and buy the Nokia and throw a Surface style of this mock up headset in
http://yronimus.deviantart.com/art/Microsoft-Surface-Phone-8-310437910
lies by money
well why should microsoft burn money with windows phones?
they have with xbox and windows7 and it sitll didn’t help
This is of course completely worthless rebuttal. Actually given the state of Nokia, it would be extremely foolish if they at least aren’t trying to develop own phone as plan B that could be used when Nokia finally implodes.
I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore. Everything, even the shit the MS Conspiracy theorists say, is all plausible.
Why would MS NEED or even want to sink a wounded company that has been off the radar? I have the strongest belie that Nokia will never sell on to MS, nor sell off assets to them. License, yes. Nokia has just started construction on the Vietnam plant and has already cut just about everything that was in the works. Cut back like Sony Ericsson did. Focused.
As far as the shareholders are concerned, they and the executive board can oust Elop if he really is steering the company into total destruction. They can’t know nothing about what’s happening. Elop, as unpopular as his decisions have been, has a job to do. Unless he has position waiting for him at MS, he has no reason to sink Nokia.
Nokia would have bought Scalado AG if they were just going to eat shit and die. Maybe a tablet was or was not in their plans. Nothing is certain until after the MS/ Nokia contract is over.
All this stuff means to me is that I need to buy a Lumia 900 and an 808 Pure View..
M$ would need to sink a wounded company that posses important pattents in mobile technology to get those pattents eg. as a damages paid for contract breaking, when Nokia can’t fullfill it, aand would need the money. M$ makes money on pattents. Every Android, even Google use technologies patented and owned by M$ hence licenced to other parties “by a certain fee”.
When M$ would get them then M$ would become just a monopolist in this area.
Note: there is no any plan B for Nokia, but seems there are several B plans for MS like own tablets or own phones. Perhaps that will show Nokia that it is basic instinct to have own technology like OS like Meltemi/MeeGo/ SXX/Symbian.
Elop is the number six of greatest MS’s private shares owner, he don’t need any position in MS, he don’t need it in fact.
This could be a clever plan to overtake company, take needed resources and all the rest throw it away.
I ll buy N9, going to stick to this for next years.
Microsoft: We are not interested in the Internet phenomenon.
Ah, the whiff of 1995. just passed through the room…
Microsoft will gain the hardware business with super cheap price if they just buyout Nokia just before any WP8 devices is announced. Nokia stock price will be very near 1euro by then.
Hi dsmobile.
In another post, you mentioned that Intel is hiring all the Nokia employees that worked on projects related to MeeGo/Harmattan or any other Linux-based platform in Finland.
Does that means the workforce with the great ideas (that Nokia never executed) has been moved to Intel?
That means Nokia’s supposed future disruption will live on,but in another project started by intel??
Even if Nokia is dead, I would like to see N9-esque phones, developed by some of the individuals responsible for the N9.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/25/3115641/failed-hp-slate-500-behind-microsoft-surface
If that story is to be believed, Microsoft started its ambitions somewhere between late 2009 to early 2010 after being disappointed at where OEM’s were taking Windows tablet wise.
Nokia and Microsoft began their talks late 2010 and made it public on the once infamous February 11, 2011 announcement. It occurred primarily because because Microsoft shared the same feelings about its phone OEMS as its tablet OEMS. Now with Nokia onboard it was able to check one priority off its list and concentrate fully on the tablet portion.
IBM had their PC/XT/286, Google had their own Nexus, where are they now?
To be able to sell, have a good product, not relying on the success or failure of others.
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