Nokia Has One Job: Drive The Growth Of Windows Phone

Windows Phone needs a champion, and Nokia is the only company that can give it the undivided attention Windows Phone deserves.

If the Windows Phone operating system is to ever succeed, Microsoft is not going to be the company that leads the charge. It can’t be, really. Microsoft is a huge company with many, many different product offerings and priorities that sometimes it seems that Windows Phone is a forgotten stepchild to Windows 8, the Surface tablet division, its robust enterprise and cloud offerings, Bing and Xbox.

Nokia is about to be part of Microsoft. The software giant acquired most of the Finnish device maker earlier this year to make it into its own personal fiefdom. Nokia is toting along nearly 32,000 employees to Microsoft when the deal is given regulatory approval and every single individual has the responsibility of making Windows Phone a pillar of mobile computing.