Nadella was against the purchase of nokia by Microsoft

We may finally know why Satya Nadella, Microsoft's current CEO, is paying too little attention to the Windows Mobile operating system. He was against buying Nokia.

Satya Nadella reveals that she was against the purchase of Nokia

The executive, who has been Microsoft's boss since early 2014, was against the Nokia acquisition from the start, claiming that unless the company changed the rules for mobile computing, the software company was simply following in the footsteps. from its competitors.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, believed that the company was chasing its competitors and there was no need for a third ecosystem on phones, which is still dominated by Android and iOS.

All this came out in Nadella's book called Hit Refresh, which at the time advised Steve Ballmer not to buy Nokia, which at the time was in full conversation. Of course, Steve Ballmer finally took over the famous Finnish phone company, to finally get rid of it a few years later.

Microsoft sold the Finnish company in 2016

However, Nadella claims the purchase was made in order to combine Nokia's engineering expertise and Microsoft's software buffs to catch up on Android and iOS. Naturally, the plan failed.

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Nadella believed that, if Windows for the smartphone did not bring something new to the table to combat Android and iOS, then it was practically running after its steps, so it voted against the purchase, which cost Microsoft more than 7, 000 million Dollars.

Time has ended giving Nadella the reason.

Source: wccftech