we have to see the whole picture , Elop is a Trojan horse period . but he worked for ?. USA , why Nokia would accept for the first time a foreign CEO with a lunatic idea?
as several people cited above, Elop needed the support of the board. my logic leads me to speculate and questioning what if this is all a plan? but not of Elop or Microsoft, if not, America.
what if a plan to DOMINATE all operating systems and therefore make their plans for world espionage. With a software manufacturer outside your borders as Nokia would be very difficult . I think a plan took underwater , including the three parts Nokia, Microsoft and the government of the United States of America
They offered a lot of money ( as indeed they did ) to buy Nokia and gradually remove unwanted uninfected operating systems (MeeGo Symbian)
and launch a new system ( WP7 ) with this super program (PRISM ) inside. Nokia was fighting a losing war against Android and took the easy door and sold his phone company from the first day of the deal with Microsoft , there are facts that were better deals than those offered by Microsoft, any intelligent person would sell his company to the highest bidder , why Nokia did not do that ?.
there are many facts that without Snowden this would be another case of Microsoft 's ineptitude destroying another company , but no. America is in control of everything and Nokia stood in his plans.
and remember that Microsoft is the number one provider of information to the NSA and thats a FACT.
nothing is random , just like they did with the twin towers with non-existent weapons of mass destruction of saddam hussein with Syria chemical weapons, and Iraq Opium fields and oil etc etc etc the list is long