Panos Panay, VP “Devices” Microsoft presents smartphone Lumia 950, 6 October 2015 – R.DREW / AP / SIPA
    • 26/05/2016 at 06:03
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We suspected, it is now official: the takeover of Nokia by Microsoft is a monumental fiasco, an error of more than 5 billion euros. On Wednesday, the company announced a new wave of 1,850 layoffs, mainly within Microsoft Mobile Finland and mopped further losses in its balance sheet. A decision that follows the 7,800 job cuts in 2015 and 18,000 in 2014. In short, by the end of the year there will be almost no former Nokia employees at Microsoft. They were 25,000 in 2013.

The Microsoft boss Satya Nadella, inherited Nokia phones. This is his predecessor, Steve Ballmer, who had in fact relied on that gamble. Nadella, he focused on cloud services and the PC with Windows 10. On mobile, he changed strategy, covering all Microsoft software and services on iOS and Android. But unlike what announces AFP, Microsoft will not give up, a priori, the manufacture of smartphones: it just stops fees on Lumia

One Area Phone 2017

Microsoft “will not manufacture more devices, at least for now. However it will make software “, told AFP a representative of the Finnish staff of Microsoft Mobile, Kalle Kiili. What this Finnish employee forgets is that Microsoft has another hardware division in the US.

The following is only speculation. But during the presentation of Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book, 20 Minutes has attended an informal presentation of Panos Panay, VP “Devices” Microsoft. Asked about an extension of the range area to smartphones, he kicked into touch, but recognized that it would not be illogical. Things seem to be accelerating. According to the Central often knowledgeable Windows blog, Microsoft would build on in April 2017 to draw his area Phone.



A smartphone can replace the PC?

April 2017, it makes far. Meanwhile, Microsoft made the round back and can rely on some smartphones unveiled in Barcelona in February by half a dozen partners. Anyway, Windows Phone market share is negligible, less than 1%. In short, Microsoft has nothing to lose. Be better refine its comeback. One year, it leaves time for the upcoming Intel chips arrived and a big upgrade from Windows 10 for mobile.

What will the Surface Phone? The most logical would be a large screen smartphone, 6 inches, with a stylus, like the Galaxy Note from Samsung. And the secret weapon of Microsoft is the “continuum” mode of Windows 10, which turns a PC into a phone by connecting to an external monitor. For now, it does not work with the “old” programs, but a good solution should be found. It would not be surprising to see Microsoft focus its offer on the corporate world. The slogan, dive in its tablets, is already found everything: Surface Phone, the smartphone that can replace your PC

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