Microsoft has put the final nail in the Nokia coffin.
It's sacked Microsoft Vice Presidents Stephen Elop and Jo Harlow, Both were taken on board when the software giant bought the iconic Nokia mobile phones division as a way of ensuring the survival of its Windows Phone operating system.
Any lingering influence the once-great Nokia had inside the Microsoft monster is now gone.
Of course, the Nokia brand still exists - in field communication and mapping. What's left of the company signed an agreement with Redmond that it wouldn't return to the mobile phone business until late 2016. And it's made it clear it will return.
But it's also make it clear it will only licence its designs and brand. It won't get involved in manufacturing.
It's going down the same road as many big brands that have fallen on hard times. Polariod is one. It once made innovative cameras. You can now get Polaroid-branded TVs, radios, you-name-it, as well as not-very-innovative cameras.
Nokia was famous for quality design and - more importantly - quality hardware.
Bye bye Nokia.
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