The Former Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Steven Ballmer, flaunted about their acquisition of the mobile phone brand, Nokia, as a "bold step into the future". Sadly, the once booming company, is bidding its 7,800 employees goodbye after Satya Nadella, the current chief executive, declared on Wednesday.
Leaving the deal behind was the latter's idea, which has caused the the lay-off of some of their workers, even if he wanted to increase their competency in the mobile devices industry.
Ballmer's decision in acquiring the phone company was seen by Nadella as a nonsense multibillion-dollar spending, though it may have been intended to overtake Samsung, Apple and Google. The idea was totally opposed by the current head when he was not promoted yet, but then started to commend it openly when he became the CEO.
FBR Capital Markets' analyst Daniel Ives' stated, "It's a headache that Nadella inherited. It is really cleaning up Ballmer's mess," noted on The New York Times.
The 7,800 people are about 6 percent of the total manpower of Microsoft, with most of them joining the company bcause of the Nokia-Microsoft deal.
Although Nokia took a sum of $11 billion as part of the deal, Microsoft's drive will not be more on the phone business but on the advancement of mobile applications for iOS and Android smart phones. One remarkable app which was already deployed is the Office Lens.
Last month, Nadella wrote in an email to all Microsoft employees, "We will need to innovate in new areas, execute against our plans, make some tough choice in areas where things are not working and solve hard problems in ways that drive customer value."
Part of this rethinking is the disposal of four senior executives. The company now has a 118,000-strong workforce according to International Business Times.
