We are taking this with enough grains of salt to fill a business sauna, because honestly why. But the same Russian blogger who’s been kicking up dirt about Microsoft buying Nokia for the last couple weeks now says done deal.
https://gizmodo.com/nokias-unfortunate-sauna-addiction-5757122
The rumored and solidly weird megadeal would have the software giant buying the hardware giant for $19 billion, and comes just months after Nokia forsook its in-house Symbian OS to put WP7 on its handsets. We’re skeptical! Despite its hard-earned Xbox success, Microsoft is a software company at heart, one that thrives on sowing licenses far and wide like a digital Johnny Appleseed. That’s why a software deal with Nokia makes perfect sense!
https://gizmodo.com/nokia-and-microsoft-are-officially-new-bffs-5757649
But locking up with a flailing hardware company whose bread and butter is cheap and disposable dumbphones doesn’t seem to make much sense for Microsoft. And a Nokia spokesperson had already pretty much shut down previous rumors of this exact nature. So, uh, let’s not get too excited over it. [Eldar Murtazin via BGR]
https://gizmodo.com/nokia-is-the-mcdonalds-of-phones-5638995
