Quite possibly, the following statement will sound somewhat dramatic for a number of people, but it feels appropriate nevertheless: Microsoft's ~$7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business, in its near entirety, marks an end of an era...
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-acquires-Nokia-read-all-about-it-here_id47008
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-acquires-Nokia-read-all-about-it-here_id47008