I guess more than Sony and any other mobile Phone vendor, the most troubled and silently derailed mobile division anyone was running so far could be of Microsoft. This insight specifically comes in the light of recent news we are hearing about the layoff of Nokia employees and writing of the business by the firm.

Microsoft slashes 7800 jobs for Nokia mobile phone business

The CEO Staya Nadella recently circulated this bad news through an e-mail announcing that 7800 employees will be layed off globally. The company has also unveiled that it “will take an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million”.

This is the amount Microsoft paid for entire Nokia business. The aforementioned write off has been put into action in the light of facts that no reasonable market share has still been captured by the firm through sale of recent Lumias and, of course, Windows Phone itself isn’t doing better either.

Nadella’s has some other things in his message too. Apparently it’s time for Microsoft to focus its phone efforts “while driving reinvention”. There will be a move “from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem that includes our first-party device family”. So we can say Microsoft wants not to pursue own-brand devices and is inclined more towardsmaking partners to adopt its mobile OS.

As far as the company’s own smartphones are concerned smartphones, those will target three customer segments: businesses, value phone buyers, and Windows fans which meansthere is little room for mid-range offerings in Microsoft’s portfolio in the future.