Nokia, the struggling world leader in mobile phones, said on Friday that it would discard its own cellphone operating system and begin using software made by Microsoft, in an alliance to shore up the halting efforts in smartphones of two market leaders.The announcement by Stephen Elop, the former Microsoft executive hired by Nokia in September as the company's first non-Finnish chief executive, was an admission of failure by Nokia, which had helped define the mobile phone age in its infancy.
The alliance is also a gamble, perhaps a last-ditch effort for both Nokia and Microsoft to gain a lasting foothold in the booming market for sophisticated smartphones, where Apple's iPhone and Google's Android software are leading the way in technology innovation.
"Nokia is at a critical juncture, where significant change is necessary and inevitable in our journey forward," Mr. Elop, a Canadian who led Microsoft's business software division before moving to Nokia, said in a statement. "Today, we are accelerating that change through a new path, aimed at regaining our smartphone leadership, reinforcing our mobile device platform and realizing our investments in the future."
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