TechCrunch: A Look Back on Symbian on the Eve of its Demise - Overview of the operating system from the beginnings to the last Nokia phone shipped with it. TechCrunch: Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team, Organizational Changes - Details of the new partnership. TechCrunch: Innovate Or Die: Nokia’s Long-Drawn-Out Decline - Looking for the reasons behind Nokia's fall: choosing Windows Phone. TechCrunch: Jumping Off The Burning Platform: Nokia Knew It Was Stuck On WP7 When It Signed On - The consequences of the first Nokia handsets running Windows Phone remaining stuck on version 7 with no upgrade path to WP8. Engadget: Lumia 900 owner vents Windows Phone 8 frustrations, Stephen Elop responds - If you've been following our Windows Phone 8 coverage today, you know that anybody who buys a Windows Phone today will not be able to upgrade to WP8 when it ships this fall. TechCrunch: Nokia Confirms The PureView Was Officially The Last Symbian Phone - Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform. TechCrunch: Symbian Goes Open Source - Courtesy of Nokia - News of the announcement by Nokia that they will be acquiring the remaining 52% of Symbian they don’t own and will be releasing the complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license. Engadget: Symbian Foundation Axing Websites on December 17th, Source Repositories Available 'Upon Request' - News that every official Symbian website will be shuttered, including every page from symbian.org, the Symbian Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the source code itself will be shelved. ITworld: Nokia Takes Over Symbian development - News of Nokia taking over the development of the Symbian OS and the Symbian Foundation becoming a licensing operation only.