Microsoft Waves the White Flag in Battle with iPhone and Android

[Wireless News]

Microsoft’s dreams of competing with iOS and Android in the mass consumer smartphone market are officially dead. Microsoft on Wednesday announced a major restructuring of its hardware division that will include layoffs of 7,800 employees “primarily in the phone business.” Instead of trying to appeal to the mass market, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday that the company is narrowing its focus to three distinct markets. FROM EARLIER:-Ballmer’s Final Blunder Has-Cost Microsoft Billions “We’ll bring business customers the best management, security and productivity experiences they need; value phone buyers the communications services they want; and Windows fans the flagship devices they’ll love,” Nadella wrote in a letter to Microsoft employees. Let’s go through these one by one. When it

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