And the deal failed. Nokia and Microsoft couldn't complete the deal. I think that's fairly "new".

Another less opiniated (not saying I don't agree with the opinion 100%) source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000....html?mod=e2tw

I'll have to mention the number of times where TMO members theorized that Elop was trying to sell off Nokia to Microsoft. Really. Yes, he was.

And then I have to point out that, as quoted from the unwiredview link above:

I can and will choose to read this as the end of the Elop/Microsoft strategy. This is what Elop's Nokia has been working for all along. From he got warm in his chair, possibly even from the board started looking for candidates for the chair. But now the board has found the price too steep, and this seems to be the end.

I believe this is the end of Elops reign at that. He's been hired to do a job, he tried to do the job, the result was horrible. Can't see they'll bother to find "new tasks" for him now.