Well, it was really predictable with all that workers from Nokia's mobile division (I will call it simply "Nokia" to simplify, refering to the acquired division) now entering the company. Anyway, I think cutting XB EU marketing teams isn't related to this. Of course, Nokia added some extra marketing people, but with expertise on mobile phones advertising. Despite that, some level of job duplication will exist for sometime because I doubt Nokia will act as a integrated part of MS: it's a different company with different corporate culture and won't act as part of the team for quite some time.
I think they added some XB EU staff to the layoffs because that guys weren't doing a good job. Maybe they will use some external marketing company to do the job and that will add a lot of flexibility for them if they want to change it later.
Edit: I'm actually curious about how they plan to handle Nokia. Integrate it as a division or keep it as a more separated thing. At least from what I heard the name Nokia may remain on the phones with licensing deals with the, well, other Nokia.
