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What's the over under on how long until MSFT has a 7 billion dollar write down for it's mobile investments?
Surprisingly MSFT is only licensing the patents. I'm assuming that doesn't mean they 'own" the patents which surprises me. I always thought a lot of Nokia's value was in it's patent portfolio as Kaptkaos mentioned. I guess the license agreements could be for 100 years. I have not seen the details on that. EDIT 10 year non exclusive deal on the patents.
I bought a nokia phone running windows this spring and unfortunately for MSFT the weakness in their phone isn't the device it is the operating system. The operating system just doesn't compete with android or iphone.
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