Why buy it for at least $15 billion now (they'll have to pay a premium obviously), when they can wait say until the end of the year when it will be worth half of that? Nokia's share price is going down fast together with their revenues and market share. It will be worth a lot less 6-12 months from now.
This article ignores Nokia's large cash reserves (€9.8 billion). If windows 7 works then they likely have the cash to do it themselves. If it doesn't work then it's hard to know what the smart phone plan B is.<p>> Microsoft is already paying Nokia $1 billion a year to use its software on Lumia smartphones.<p>Is that number even remotely accurate? I couldn't find any sources that didn't discredit it. Wouldn't it be a matter of public record if true though?<p>Also disclaimer - I work for Nokia but have absolutely no knowledge about this topic beyond an obvious interest and a few google searches.
Microsoft won't have to buy nokia. They have all the advantages they could get from that and none of the headaches.<p>If they do buy Nokia it will be for one reason only, to prevent another party from buying it.
Why doesn't Google buy Nokia in order to stop Windows Phone dead in its tracks? Would that be a pointless investment? Does Google already feel they've won?
Yeah, and my house is for sale for just $300K when MS has $60 Billion in cash :). I would be shocked if they bought Nokia, it would mean a stop to all other non-Nokia Win phones. I am willing to bet that MS will suck it up and help Nokia for quite a while though.