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The Chinese Based telecommunication company Huawei drops joint operating system. There were plans to create a phone that supported the Microsoft Windows system and the Android operating system on the one device.
The company has announced that they have dropped this idea and are continuing to work with these operating systems separately. Most of the phones they make support the Android operating system.
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In 2013, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) purchased Nokia’s phone division for $7.2 billion. The move brought together Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 with the company’s leading hardware supporter. The two firms had collaborated to create Nokia’s Lumia 1020. This collaboration played a significant role in Microsoft’s decision to modify the operating system on its Windows Phone. Microsoft had been financing Nokia even before it acquired the phone division. The company was offering about $1 billion each year and this motivated the phone manufacturer to select Windows Phone as a partner for its Lumia development project.
Microsoft is now looking ahead and it has been suggested that the company has selected Samsung and Sony to develop its Windows Phone 8 phones. The company is looking for the same kind of deal it made with Nokia. The company is expected to pay the two companies to come up with a Windows Phone 8 model.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has always sought an entry point into the mobile market. This is especially true after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) introduced the Android Mobile OS. Each giant tech company knows that the future of advertising lies in the mobile market and that is why they are trying to advance their own mobile operating system. Microsoft’s intention to acquire Nokia’s mobile hardware division for over seven billion dollars is the company’s latest move towards a greater share of the mobile OS market.
Microsoft announced this intention on September 2nd 2013. The Redmond based company considered this move a step in the right direction in respect of an integrated Windows Phone ecosystem. It is important for you to note that Microsoft and Nokia have had a long-standing partnership where Nokia produced a number of mobile devices that run on a Windows Phone platform.
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