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Microsoft plans to change the business of Nokia in the next 18 months . An internal document sent by Satya Nadella , CEO of the Redmond company , its employees, explains that the goal of the multinational is to focus on your operating system. This is the reason that, from now on, they shall gather a few designs of X and Nokia products become Lumia with Windows Phone .

Shortly after that Microsoft acquired Nokia , together with its division of smartphones, the Finnish company introduced the smartphone market a good performance and affordable, the Nokia X2 . Furthermore, had the Android operating system , the software Google for mobile and tablets. This was a challenge for the company , as of Redmond had always supported devices to integrate their own platform.

Now, Satya Nadella announced that will catch some models of Nokia with Windows Phone for improvement . "To enter the market with high-end prices to match , we focus on innovation and the experience that Microsoft offers in all aspects. Thus, we intend to catch some designs and turn them into X Nokia Lumia products that integrate our platform inside. "

As the own CEO of the multinational, it is more logical to hold together the platform to worry about a part of it. So you can better fight Google and Apple , its major competitors in the mobility sector.

This news comes with another even less popular. The company reunify several divisions of the company, so there will be 18,000 layoffs . Specifically, Devices and Services division of Nokia lost 12,500 people . Each of them will be notified in the next six months and will receive compensation. These layoffs will affect both factory workers and executives .

Satya Nadella said that reductions in the workforce due to the need for work simplification and strategic alignment with Nokia Devices and Services . Layoffs obviously be altered manufacturing strategy of the multinational. So, Microsoft will focus its efforts in Salo , Finland , for future products Lumia of high-end and Tampere , Finland , to the more affordable end .

San Diego, Espoo and Lund will take care of software development , while the production will focus on Hanoi . Thus, they intend to go into reducing manufacturing Komaron, Hungary, until it disappears completely.

In the end, we will have to let go of the Android operating system on the Nokia X to open the doors to Windows Phone . However, there is still consider what will happen to users who already have one of these phones , as for now, it is unknown if receive an update to change software or, if left with the same version that already have the system.