Windows Phone is dead. Microsoft Lumia is dead. If you didn’t already know this, you’ve not been paying attention. But it’s easy to be blind to the inevitable when you’re emotionally attached to something.

Microsoft has written off the entire $7.2 billion it paid for Nokia, with interest: The writeoff totals around $8.4 billion. Told you so.

This is the end. Surely even the more ardent, die-hard fan knows it by now? Lumia and Windows Phone are brain-dead, quasi-corpses — only kept alive by artificial life-support: Satya Nadella’s and COO Kevin Turner’s corp-speke could not have been clearer.

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