Stephen Elop said to consider selling Xbox business, killing Bing

I hope he'll be as efficient at Microsoft as he was at Nokia. :-)

One comment from sdrawkcab on that page seems to resonate with my opinion very well:

Microsoft is the only major technology/software company that thrives well in both the consumer and enterprise space, giving up Bing and Xbox is giving up a huge part of the consumer space, which Microsoft have said they intend to hold on to. Selling Bing and Xbox is incredibly short-sighted as well. Doing so will almost instantly guarantee that Google will dominate search and maybe even media, and I’d hate for that to happen. Google is already making some very monopolistic moves these days, and if they get more opportunity to do so, I doubt they’ll stop. The market needs options, and Microsoft’s offerings are a very good option.

I wonder what benefit selling the Xbox business would bring.

Xbox and Bing both have more market share in their respective markets than Windows Phone does in smartphones.

Does this guy just have some sort of compulsive urge to destroy platforms?