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Nokia sees no change in relationship
with Microsoft
(Reuters)
- Nokia's chief executive said there would be no change in the relationship
with its software partner Microsoft, despite the software
giant's entry into tablets and partnerships with rival phone makers.
Stephen
Elop said Nokia retained a "special" relationship with Microsoft,
even though others such as HTC have also launched phones with Windows Phone software.
"They're
not sitting in the priority meetings that we're sitting in," he said at
the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms conference in Barcelona on
Wednesday.
Analysts
have said Microsoft could one day become a rival to Nokia if it launches its
own smartphones, while there is also speculation that the U.S. company could
one day acquire the Finnish phone manufacturer.
(Reporting
by Paul Sandle)
BARCELONA
| Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:29pm GMT
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