Nokia Corp. announced a major shift in its corporate strategy Friday, stating Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone will become the primary operating system for Nokia smart phones.
The future of Symbian, an open source operating system for wireless cellular devices, is unclear. What is clear is Nokia plans to focus more on its core hardware business and leave the operating system to a firm such as Microsoft that specializes in operating systems. It probably did not throw in its lot with Android simply because Google's core business is online search and advertising rather than operating systems. This does not explain why Nokia chose to use Bing rather than Google on its devices.
