[Swordmaker]

Ping for your list. . . Microsoft gives up on cellular phone market.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Good. Back to core business and up will go my stock!

[Swordmaker]

Microsoft is throwing in the towel and getting out of the cellular phone business. Lays off 1850 workers. — PING!

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[Crolis]

I read that on WindowsCentral.com earlier today. I’m not so sure they are pulling out of the smartphone market completely, but they might be focusing on enterprise.

Of course I just bought a Lumia 950 XL yesterday. I do like Windows 10 Mobile. It’s coming along nicely and hopefully some more apps get written for it although it is a chicken and egg scenario with regard to app development.

[zeestephen]

Microsoft should have concentrated just on a smart phone Windows operating system instead of going into the retail phone business.

Once they had the mobile Windows OS up and working, they should have licensed it to every Third World country on the planet for $1 a year.

They would have lost money, but only a fraction of what they lost on Nokia, and they would probably have a billion cheap mobile phones using the Windows platform, phones that were manufactured by a dozen different low cost Third World companies.

[Grams A]

Now if they would just stop their relentless push to convert to Windows 10.

[Secret Agent Man]

Windows 10 FORCIBLY crossed 300 million units....

Such lying liars.

[zeugma]

Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too

It's this their 3rd time to do so? You'd think people would learn. Then again, maybe they have.

[Boogieman]

Stupid MS, they should have used basic common sense... “stick with what you’re good at”.

MS is good at making an OS that dominates the business market and the casual home computing and hardcore gaming markets. Yet, they have for the last 3 major updates made that OS less friendly towards those markets in a vain attempt at rebranding themselves for a mobile market that is NOT their strength.

Any fool could have told them it would be a disaster, but that is another one of MS’s weaknesses: they never seek or listen to feedback from their customers before throwing hundreds of millions of dollars away on hare-brained ideas.

[rmlew]

The New Windows Phones are nice. It is a shame that they are getting out of the personal use market. Had microsoft been smart, they could have focused on security and made a play for consumers concerned about security, and not just businesses.

HP is introducing a phablet for business with some interesting features, if it works. http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&eSpotName=Elite-x3

[dennisw]

Microsoft blew 3 billion buying Nokia. I knew this was stupid move when it took place.
But what do they care. MS has 100 billion in cash offshore and tens of billions held in the USA

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2014
In its latest regulatory filing, the software giant said it has now stockpiled $92.9 billion offshore and that this money could have cost the company $29.6 billion in taxes, but didn’t.
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Moody´s: Microsoft, Apple and Google´s Combined Cash Reserves Close to $400 Billion
winbuzzer.com · 1 day ago
Microsoft, alongside Apple and Google, holds 23% of all corporate cash in the United States, with other companies

[Jonty30]

They are not getting out, at least according to this memo. They are moving ahead with Continuum.

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-memo-reveals-shifting-mobile-strategy?utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=wp

[TChad]

My cheap Windows phone has been one of the great bargains of my life. I love the thing.

Thank you, Microsoft, for dragging me into the world of smartphones.