According to rumors Nokia had lots of discussion with MS and Google about which platform they should take. Got the impression that the proposition from MS was somehow better and at least initially gave more room to move for Nokia. Later on got the impression that lots of things didn&#x27;t went as was promised.<p>But, Nokia is still alive and the situation seems to be a lot rosier for them after selling the mobile phone business. They got good price and got really cheap loan from Microsoft as part of the deal. Of course in PR side Nokia didn&#x27;t have to kick out the phone engineers. Microsoft is handling that still and getting the negative PR from that.<p>One has to remember that earlier Ericsson quit the phone business as well by selling that to Sony. Actually those phones got better after that :)