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HELSINKI (AFP) – Nokia said weekday it has entered a "broad strategic partnership" with Microsoft whose Windows Phone module today help as the company's direct smartphone platform.

As conception of a newborn strategic organisation for the world's crowning ambulatory sound maker, which has been struggling against rivalry from Apple and Google's offerings, chief chief Stephen Elop also declared changes to the chief board.

The announcements were met, however, with sharp dissatisfaction on the stock market, as Nokia's share toll plummeted 9.44 proportionality to 7.39 euros (10.02 dollars) on the port Stock Exchange.

"Nokia is at a grave juncture, where significant modify is necessary and fateful in our travelling forward," said Elop, presently before he holds an investors briefing in author on the newborn strategy.

The consort also said that it was creating a newborn 13-member chief board, with some newborn faces and the unmediated feat of Alberto Torres, who was in charge of Nokia's MeeGo project.

The board, today titled the Nokia Leadership Team, totals 13 with Elop and four newcomers -- Colin Giles, Rich Green, Jo actress and Louise Pentland.

The briefing in author is eagerly expected as investors wish that Elop crapper hit a major shake-up, with Nokia pain at the safekeeping of rivals much as Apple and Google who hit evidenced quicker at effort more original products to customers.

Earlier in the week, Elop warned that Nokia needed immoderate modify if it was to survive "blazing competition" every around it.

With Microsoft Phone as the direct smartphone platform, Nokia's Symbian grouping module become a "franchise platform" as the consort attempts to "retain and transition" its 200 meg Symbian-powered ambulatory sound customers, it said in a statement.

MeeGo, on the other hand, module be kept for long-term utilization for next-generation devices.

Nokia has still not shipped some smartphones with MeeGo although the consort said it hoped to hit one MeeGo-related product on class shelves later this year.

Nokia also declared a re-organisation of its playing units into removed smartphone and mass-market ambulatory units.

"Each organisation module hit profit-and-loss domain and end-to-end responsibility for the flooded consumer experience, including product development, product direction and product marketing," the consort said.

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