the end of the Finnish miracle; Microsoft lays off 18,000 nokiaites

the end of the Finnish miracle; Microsoft lays off 18,000 Nokiaites

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


During world war 2 isolated and alone Finland held off the mighty Russian army for many brutal months of fierce battle.

During the 1990's Nokia ruled the world from Finland developing and exploiting technology after innovation from Finland allowing mini Finland to be admired and respected economically by all the Counties of the world.

Now Nokia is gone absorbed by Microsoft and Microsoft which maybe isn't growing organically itself anymore must cut Nokia jobs in Finland and elsewhere to survive. It won't be long I suppose till Microsoft stockholders want the parent company broken up to enhance stockholder value.

Things change. A phone is a phone but a different company must manufacture it and change the color over and over to keep business booming. Meanwhile the Finnish miracle is over.

Finland the country with wholesome blond women and a clever industrious workforce is still a beautiful place I suppose. I always wanted to go there. Once all the world admired their ability.

Microsoft announced with the layoffs that it will approaching the future from a new direction. Like many others it hopes to rule cloud computing, as does Apple and IBM which recently announced a partnership to exploit possibilities in clouds. Will Microsoft be able to grow it's 366 billion dollar market cap going forward? Perhaps it should look to buy a whole Country, but not Finland which is currently struggling itself to currently grow the old GDP and bring back the Finnish miracle.