Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
You999@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoTo be fair, Microsoft only bought and killed off the phone division. The rest of Nokia is still around including their R&D department bell labs. You know the same bell labs that’s developed some little know inventions like C and C++, solar panels, the transistor, and UNIX…
sus@programming.dev 9 months ago
Nokia bought the parent company of bell labs in 2016. By that point bell labs had already been completely restructed to the point that it has basically nothing to do with the historical bell labs.