Stefan Mileschin

As Nokia started to snuggle up to Microsoft, the dark satanic rumour mill claimed that the Nokia CEO Stephen Elop was a Trojan Horse who had been planted in the phone company to subvert it to the way of the Vole.

The theory was that Elop, who used to work at Microsoft, would slowly turn the outfit into a Microsoft subsidiary which would later be bought out by Steve Ballmer. The theory gained some traction when Elop dumped Nokia’s Symbian business and moved to become a Windows only shop. At the time, Windows was nowhere on the telephone world stage.

Now that Elop is back working at Vole and Nokia is part of the glorious Volish empire, people are starting to ask “was he really a plant” and part of Steve Ballmer’s cunning, but evil, plan to take over the company.

ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley wrote that former Nokia CEO and current Microsoft exec Stephen Elop was quizzed about this during a question-and-answer session.

He was asked if he was a “Trojan Horse” at Nokia whose job was solely to bring the company’s value down enough for Microsoft to buy it on the cheap. Elop defended his decisions.

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