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Comment by jpalomaki

3 years ago

The choice to go with Microsoft eventually saved Nokia.

Offloading the Mobile Phone unit to Microsoft for nice $7 billion gave them room to breath. Without this, the losses from mobile phones might have dragged the whole company down and somebody could have acquired them for a small price.

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