Microsoft to launch six new handset this year

The result: an impairment charge of about $7.6 billion related to assets connected to its Nokia Devices and Services business acquisition. Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, said, “It’s a headache that Nadella inherited”.

Well, we will have to wait and watch if Microsoft would be adding more features to the app before the release of Windows 10. This lay-off is Microsoft’s way staying focused more on software and cloud solutions and hence most of the job cuts will be in the phone hardware business. In order to get in line with your reservation do the following: on your current Windows machine in the taskbar click the small Windows icon. In a companywide email last month, the Microsoft CEO circulated the company’s revised mission statement that called for empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

While the iOS and Android based smartphone ecosystems continue to rule the market, Windows-based phones have not gained the necessary traction. Elop has denied this “Trojan horse” tactic, but a horse is a horse, of course.

The web browser that comes with the OS has been renamed from Project Spartan to its more official name of Microsoft Edge. On the other hand, Microsoft might as well shift to Android for their smartphones. They never jumped into the social media game and when asked about Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp he said, “Is it a fad?”

AppX is the file format used by Microsoft to distribute and install software and middleware for Windows Store apps for Windows 8 and above. “Reasonable people – Zuckerberg believes so, and no reason to doubt it”. Tom Warren at The Verge reported that the future of Microsoft’s mobile strategy will be less about phones, and March Hachman at PC World thinks that the only way out of the big Windows Phone mess is for Microsoft to follow Apple’s lead. Ballmer engineered the Nokia deal before stepping down; his successor as CEO, Satya Nadella, was opposed to the initial purchase and has moved to dismantle it since taking over the company in 2014.

Windows 10 Mobile is not expected to be available until later this year so it is behind in its overall development compared to the desktop version of Windows 10 which also saw build 10166 delivered this week to testers.