Strategy 'Trojan Horse' and shifting Symbian

Nokia cooperation with Microsoft is not always profitable. Especially for some divisions that are trimmed, and some employees are passed to other companies. Less reassure the news began to be felt in early April for the division of research and development (R & D) Nokia because trimming the number of employees.

Nokia has 16,134 employees in the division R & D. Globally, the employees of these divisions will be reduced as much as 38 percent. Please note, the budget division of R & D Nokia in the year 2010 reached $4.3 Million. These costs are more than twice as Apple which requires only a $1.78 million in the same year. This is why CEO Stephen Elop issued the policy.

After the division R & D, now turn outsourced developers Symbian crushed 'unlucky'. Of the 4,000 people, about 3,000 employees would be passed to a company called Accenture. However, Nokia also offered another position before some employees were taken over Accenture. Accenture will take over the activities of Nokia's Symbian software development in the future. While Nokia itself will focus on Microsoft as a new partner by bringing up Windows Phone as a primary OS.

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