{"id":64736,"date":"2012-11-15T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64736"},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:20:46","slug":"nokia-microsoft-relationship-remains-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64736-nokia-microsoft-relationship-remains-special.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia-Microsoft relationship remains “special”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nokia<\/a>‘s chief executive said there would be no change in the relationship with its software partner Microsoft<\/a>, despite the software giant’s entry into tablets and partnerships with rival phone makers.<\/p>\n

Stephen Elop<\/a> said Nokia retained a “special” relationship with Microsoft, even though others such as HTC<\/a> have also launched phones with Windows Phone<\/a> software.<\/p>\n

“They’re not sitting in the priority meetings that we’re sitting in,” he said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecoms conference in Barcelona on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Analysts have said Microsoft could one day become a rival to Nokia if it launches its own smartphones, while there is also speculation that the U.S. company could one day acquire the Finnish phone manufacturer.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Elop, Nokia’s chief executive, said that there has been no changes in the relationship between Nokia and Microsoft, after Microsoft entered the hardware market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":60729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,123,653,1361,1333],"class_list":["post-64736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-smartphones-2","tag-windows-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64794,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64736\/revisions\/64794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}