Nokia employees are concerned about their fate as Microsoft reserves

This is not a scoop: the acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft, to be finalized in early 2014, employees of the former world number one mobile care. Especially those that are installed in the “Nokia House,” the nickname headquarters near Helsinki, Finland. And they have good reason to be alarmed: the redemption of Motorola by Google in August 2011, more than 4,000 employees had been dismissed in a few days …

information run in circles high-tech Helsinki, and, according to our information, confirming the verdicts economists and observers, the most worried Nokia are those who work in Asha branch. This range of low cost phones, now at the heart of Nokia until Lumia smartphones really take off, do not fit in the Microsoft ecosystem. The team that the Lumia Windows Phone operating system, is now too heavy for Asha, who use the most rudimentary Symbian (S40) software history of the brand.

Windows Phone at all costs

It is likely that Microsoft plans to integrate Windows Phone to the entire range, in line its unifying the user experience strategy (Windows, Windows Phone, Outlook, Office, etc..). Symbian developers would then be at the forefront of the case, very likely, when Microsoft decides a wave of layoffs. For their part, the Finns mourn the departure of their national icon and worry of a possible disappearance of the brand on the devices, once the acquisition finalized.

Other countries where Nokia troops are very worried: India. Finnish has 9,000 employees in the territory of which it dominates the market, while Microsoft account 6000. “The layoffs seem inevitable” as there would be duplicates, wrote Times of India in early September. In recent weeks, The Point.fr asked, unsuccessfully, to meet with leaders from Nokia. But they must, indeed, have much to do in this time of turmoil …