Stephen Elop: 'Hello there' (and goodbye to 12,500 of you)

Re: Dear Jasper

That should be "WHOSE purpose in life..."

"Who's" means "who is" or perhaps "who has."

Re: Dear Jasper

Dear James Hughes 1,

"It doesn't take much extra typing, and would mean you don't look like an illiterate dick who's purpose in life is to take shortcuts with their writing just to annoy people (i.e. me)"

Your use of the comma after "typing" is incorrect. "Who's" is defined as "who is" or "who has", neither of which makes any sense in context.

Your declarative sentence also runs-on making the "i.e." superfluous.

I am in no way faultless when I type, but if you're going to criticize someone for proper sentence structure you should at least try to make an effort yourself. Or you can simply accept that pobody is nerfect.

Re: The Elop Touch

Well Everything that Midas touched turned to gold (Toilet time must have been fun ) Which made him as rich as Croesus So with a slight nod to the mash-up culture we get..

Crappus Everything he touched turns to shit..

For legal reasons no parallel is drawn ...

Re: The Elop Touch

More like a Greek commander, having done the clever horse bit and been praised by his masters for it, is now culling the remains of the conquest.

Re: Smug wee Alex Salmond?

I have absolutely zero preference one way or the other on Scottish independance - but surely most people are in agreement that Salmond is an oily smug arsehole?

Does a personal dislike of someone preclude a particular political opinion?

Re: How many people have lost their jobs due to Flop?

answer: tens of thousands.

which means tens of thousands of families affected.

He fired more people than both his Nokia predecessors combined and OPK wasn't trigger shy.

(@Elop's lawyers - I read all the press releases 2000-2013 to compile this data as part of a thesis)

Just more evidence of a lack of understanding of the mobile market. Nokia knew in the 90s that 15% market share is the threshold for critical mass for cost efficiency in supply chain and manufacturing. Microsoft sees mobile as a showcase for their "stuff".

Probably patents.

But they also got the rights to use the extremely well known and trusted Nokia brand (At least for a while)

One thing that either I have missed or has not been reported, MS have said that they are moving production haven't they? Doesn't this mean that potentially there are x000 new jobs being created in the areas that they are moving to?

I'd imagine that they will be retaining the R&D types and people that do the actual tech design and just laying off the "Pick them off the street" factory work force?