What do Microsoft's latest mobile layoffs mean for the Surface phone?

If we needed any more confirmation that Microsoft's Nokia acquisition was a disaster, it came today in the form of another 1,850 layoffs, mostly from legacy operations in Finland. That's in addition to the nearly 8,000 heads that rolled last year in the wake of the Nokia write-off.

After the layoffs last year, CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft was "committed to … first-party devices including phones," but also effectively admitted iOS and Android had won the mobile war, a war Microsoft couldn't afford to wage any longer — at least directly. As a result, I declared Windows Phone (and by extension Windows 10 Mobile) all but dead. Read more...