It's now Macrohard!

Xbox One will be indestructible!

Can't do any worse that what HP did after they bought Palm. If there are still Nokia devices being manufactured this time next year, it's a win.

Really?

Surprising...but not unexpected.

I'm also from Finland and people here make too big deal out of it. Nokia hasn't been making that great products recently and has been losing marketshare to its competitors, so the sale doesn't really matter at all.

We still have Rovio, which I'm expecting to go bankrupt or downsize significantly after the Angry Birds craze ends.

People called me crazy when I said the Elopcalypse was coming.

Who's crazy now, huh? HUH?

Didn't see that coming.

micro$oft indeed

actually they brought lumia and not nokia itself

I'm from Finland too and I just don't care unless it affects my personal life. I'm never gonna buy a Nokia phone anyway.

Built to last > meets > built to crash??!!!??!!

Now your PC will be able to survive from damage after throwing it across the room during one of it's Windows crashes and an axe through the screen! Smart move Microsoft...

..... They bought only the phone division

as long as nokias dont turn into POS's that break easily, or microsoft stuff will be very durable.

If they still produce mobile phones that can be used as a weapon(which I used) I don't care

3310snakeitfgt.

Lumia windows phones suck to begin with, so nothing new

Won't change much, at least short-term, as they pretty much owned their phone business for a while now due to Nokia's contractual obligation with them. They're simply making it official.

I'd love to see MS make a comeback in the mobile scene and rise to number 2 above Apple, but right now it hardly seems possible.

What???Hell, I didn't even heard about this...Nokia started to go downhill since some time, so I guess it's not so odd that this happened.But why MS?!

Nokia's death warrant was already signed back in 2011 when they made the exclusivity deal with Microsoft for Windows Phone. They were unable to evolve and compete with their own lineup of Symbian devices and massively miscalculated the future prospects of WP as a phone OS.

if you do read about recent downtime and big loss of Nokia, you can smell something fishy about this buy out.

To sum up, the insiders of these industry suggest that Microsoft intentionally brought down Nokia value over the period of 2-3 years using one of their former employee: Stephen Elop.

At sometime in 2011, Stephen Elop became CEO of Nokia. Be it a a conspiracy or not, eventually Nokia started to went down further into loss since Elop albeit with more concise and more focus on their market. One of the most suspected behavior is Elop strategy to remove Symbian and making smartphone based on Window phones.

Some technicians claim that Window phones at those time is not very good and slow response to bug, crashes. Eventually at of it is today, Nokia smartphone division is bought by Microsoft, in which re-assign Elop to become Nokia CEO again.

Thus, people suspect that Microsoft brought down Nokia below their actual value on the market for final buy out.

We'll see how it goes.

So Microsoft bought Nokia Lumia 925.

Yeah, it bums me out too. You see I'm from Finland also ;).
Anyways it was a dump decision from Nokia, no matter what. Now they just have tyres and wellys, good luck with them!