Microsoft
officially complete the purchase of the business units of Nokia phones
and services in the acquisition agreement worth 7.2 billion u.s.
dollars.
First
announced in September 2013 acquisition process had hampered regulatory
issues that cannot be resolved before finally approved by government
agencies around the world.
"Today we welcome business hardware and services to Nokia to our family. Mobile
capabilities and assets they bring will continue our transformation,
"said Satya Nadella, Microsoft'S CEO is quoted by the BBC.
Two business units of Nokia is renamed into Microsoft Mobile Oy and operated as a separate subsidiary. "Oy"
is a word in the language of Finland (Osakeyhtiö) referring to a
company whose shares are not owned by the public, such as "Ltd" or
"Limited" in the United Kingdom.
The
completion of the acquisition process that marked the end of gait
mobile phone producer Nokia having previously had dominated the market
for more than a decade.
Is
still not known whether Microsoft would still retain the brand Nokia
and Lumia on mobile phones that are produced after the acquisition
process. Microsoft says that party decisions about that would be made at a later date.
Nokia
will continue to live as the company concentrates on three areas of
business: networking infrastructure (NSN), map (HERE maps) as well as
Advanced Technologies (development and technology license).
So the big manufacturers
The
Verge noted that Microsoft also purchased the Nokia employees as many
as 25,000 people, fewer numbers of 32,000 that proclaimed earlier.
Manufacturer
of Windows it at once incarnated so giant cell phone manufacturer (via
Nokia business unit purchased) with annual pengkapalan rate reaching
more than 250 million handsets, the second largest after Samsung.
Of these, only 30 million Windows-based Mobile Phone (Lumia) Microsoft made. The
rest is a feature phone Nokia and Android Asha series x. Microsoft must
now be thinking of the management of all devices that are not running
Windows Phone.
On
the other hand, the purchase of Microsoft over the company's the making
of the Nokia morph into the most dominant hardware manufacturer in the
realm of Windows Phone handset business, which he had made his own
platform.
Line series smartphone Nokia's Lumia by far controlled 90 percent of the market share of Windows Phone handsets. Microsoft
was also placed in an awkward position, in which the company is trying
to expand the Central Windows Phone adoption among other mobile phone
manufacturers, but now also compete directly with them.
