Good Bye Nokia.com – Microsoft redirects UK visitors to its own site

Microsoft acquires Nokia’s Devices & Services business & patent licenses for $7.17 billion. Nearly about 32,000 staff would be shifted to Microsoft & Nokia is going to provide a 10 year non-exclusive license to its patents with the mutual patent agreement to perpetuity to Microsoft.

As Microsoft’s present CEO Steve Ballmer will be retiring.  Microsoft’s confirmed new CEO candidate is Stephen Elop. And the new CEO has a major role to play & bring forth the release of Office for Android tablets & the iPad as soon as possible in order to avoid the challenges from Google Docs & Google Apps. Microsoft recently made a move & shifted Nokia.com website of UK over to Microsoft.com. But on mean while Microsoft will follow the same shift even in other geographical locations. Though still Nokia.com website exists in UK but on access it will redirect the pages to the new Microsoft portal with a message: We’ve moved to a new home! Everything you need to know about #Lumia is here now: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/mobile/

Before waving a Good bye to present Nokia, cell phone giant a look at its history brings back the enthralling breakthroughs it had achieved since Nokia founded about 150 years ago, as a paper mill factory to rubber boot manufacturer then as Car tires manufacturer & finally to a mobile phone giant.  And Nokia which will continue in Finland as: company.nokia.com as its URL.

John Kneeland, Nokia’s product manager for emerging markers posted a letter on Thursday after the move of Nokia-Microsoft deal: “Today (April 24 2014) was the last day of Nokia as we knew it. The staff of Nokia’s Silicon Valley office went to the restaurant down the street and had one last celebration together. We had fun and said our goodbyes,”

Kneeland wrote. “On April 25, that Nokia ceases to exist, and in its place are two companies that officially have nothing to do with each other: Microsoft Mobile Oy (where the heart of the company will go) and Nokia Oyj (where I will be).”

He continued, “Tomorrow I will still be an employee of Nokia. I will go to my office in Sunnyvale. It will be the same building it was yesterday. It will still say NOKIA on its facade basking in the California sun. But half of the people I’ve worked with will be gone. Up through today we shared everything. Tomorrow we will share nothing but our memories. I am not writing another piece to lay blame for who is responsible for the decline and fall of this iconic company. I am writing to reflect on what Nokia has meant for the world, and for me.”