The recently announced partnership of Nokia with Microsoft, may have been intended to strengthen the position of the telecommunications giant, but could have achieved just the opposite, mayve even rendering the position of Stephen Elop as CEO untenable.

Stocks fell by 14% as shareholders and employees alike made it quite clear, that they are not happy with the decision to phase out the Symbian platform in favor for Windows Phone 7.

While the majority of people agree that something had to be done, the general consensus is that Android would have been a better choice.

Interestingly, Microsoft have given Nokia exclusive rights to customize Windows Phone 7, despite stopping HTC from doing the same thing.

Elop himself only left Microsoft last September leading us to conclude that perhaps, this was planned all along.