Microsoft Ending Its Short-Lived Tenure as Android Phone Maker | Re/code

Surprising only in that the Android-based Nokia X products weren't terminated sooner

"Among the details in Microsoft’s big layoff news was the fact that the company plans to pull back on Nokia’s brief foray into Android-based phones.

“We plan to shift select Nokia X product designs to become Lumia products running Windows,” CEO Satya Nadella wrote in his memo announcing the job cuts. Despite the use of the word select, Microsoft clarified it doesn’t plan to make future Android-based Nokia X phones."

Microsoft Ending Its Short-Lived Tenure as Android Phone Maker | Re/code