The site published a message from Nokia, sheds light on some aspects of strategic cooperation with the Finnish manufacturer by Microsoft .
Company joined forces about two years ago, when Nokia opted for the operating system Windows Phone, refusing to further advance its own operating system Symbian.
It is well known that one of the conditions of the agreement was to help Microsoft to promote the products and the opportunity to participate in the Nokia OS development. According to some, for the development and promotion of smartphones with Windows Phone Nokia is to get more than a billion dollars .
However, Nokia, as well as other buyers licenses Windows Phone, Microsoft is paying royalties. In the first stage Microsoft gave more than they receive, but gradually changed. Roughly speaking, for Nokia comes time to pay the bills.
According to estimates of Nokia, to the end of the contract stipulated the minimum required amount of royalties to Microsoft exceed the payments received on the part of Microsoft, for 500 million euros.
The manufacturer said that this year will help Microsoft still more royalties.
Duration of the agreement is still not disclosed, but the above it can be concluded that the agreement does not end this year.
Source: Nokia
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