Elop is amazing, look at what he was sent to do. He achieved his goals with flying colours.

He's seen as bad cause he contributed a lot to MS's purchase of Nokia.
And that's bad for a lot of people that don't like MS.

Ok, but to be fair, the nokia buyout is only granting msft some more time to make something happen with mobile.  Let's say that Samsung is thinking about moving some phones to Windows, meanwhile, msft not only makes the hardware but gets a cut of the app sales, and eill therefore be able to charge a lower price and basically undercut anybody else making phones using windows.  This caused problems for google,  until google and samsung had this recent deal where google sold Motorola in return for patent cooperation and samdung promising to greatly tone down its use of tizen.  So, previous experiences lead me to think it  wontgo well for Microsoftp

I hope it goes well. I have a W8 phone and it's very nice...

People blame him for Nokia's downfall. It wasn't him though, cause Nokia was already dying way before he came. He saved them from failure, but people also say it was his bad decision to go with Windows instead of Android. 

Yep, so he isn't a bad choice, and knows devices.

Eggxactly

If you have used or even played around with any of the Lumia phones or the Lumia 2520 Tablet then you would know that Nokia designed beautiful hardware. So tell me why having Elop and likely his hardware design team from Nokia running the hardware group at Microsoft is anything but a good thing?

It's certainly a good thing for Microsoft, I mean you are fielding a very capable former ceo.  However, many investors are wanting microsoft to ditch the xbox and bing as well, bc the enterprise side of the company is making more money.  So Elop might have been put in yhis role to provide support for ditching the xbox since he already said that he would do so, given the chance.  So, he might help sell it to Amazon or Ninty.

Elop is going to help MS divest from Xbox.

MS wants to keep the profits from games and running the infrastructure while having someone else bear the hardware costs.