A year and a half ago, Microsoft shocked investors by announcing its intentions to acquire the Nokia handset business in a $7.2 billion deal that would make Microsoft one of the largest handset vendors in the world
Under CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft has been increasingly willing to take the fight to its rivals. The company has specifically pushed back against Google which stole significant market share from Microsoft’s Windows operating system with its
Microsoft recently discontinued the Surface 2 and Nokia Lumia 2520 the last two Windows RT devices on the market effectively killing the ARM based operating system. Its demise was not exactly