Nokia needs to arrest decline in emerging markets

Nokia is having a hard time catching traction in the smartphone market.

While most reviewers have only good things to say about its Lumia series of Windows Phone-powered smartphones, consumers are somehow not buying.

Nokia's Lumia 900 and other Windows Phone smartphones get all the media attention.

And although most of the more than 2 million who actually bought the phones as of the first quarter of 2012 are very much satisfied about their Nokia smartphones, there are just not enough of them to counterbalance all the bad news hitting the Finnish mobile vendor.

Saying Goodbye to Windows XP

In two years time, Microsoft will end all support for Windows XP, one of the world's most popular computer operating systems ever.

When April 8, 2014, comes upon us, the software giant will stop issuing fixes, security patches, or any other form of support for the OS and its millions of users.

Microsoft said it will stop all support for one of the world's most popular operating systems ever.

This is no big deal. Things like this happen all the time, in almost all industries. Automobiles, watches, even cosmetics, they all go out of fashion and become obsolete, or unimportant enough to merit a trip to history's dustbin.

Obsolescence, however, happens faster and more often in the high-tech world.