After acquiring the area of the Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia for $ 7.2 billion in 2013, Microsoft will retire the brand and replace it with "Microsoft Lumia". The information was confirmed on Tuesday (21) by Nokia on their Facebook page for France. "In the coming days, you will receive a message from Facebook about renaming this page.

The site "The Verge" Microsoft has confirmed that other countries have gone through the redesign of the brand. France was only the first subsidiary to replace the "Nokia" brand for new channels in their social networks.
Microsoft's decision, however, does not end once the Nokia brand, which will still be used by the Finnish company, now focused only on network infrastructure devices.
The decision does not come as a surprise, because when Microsoft announced it would stop making mobile phone running Android, the company's vice president Stephen Elop said "Nokia" would no longer be used as a trademark.