[CaveTech]

Microsoft is not shy about "posturing themselves as opponents to Android", and has been doing so for a long time. It's not really a surprise here.

[nivla]

>Microsoft is not shy about "posturing themselves as opponents to Android".

So does Apple. The business world is as nasty as politics, everyone pretends to care for the users, no one really does.

[rayiner]

Close. Really: everything is politics (aka human nature).

[hkmurakami]

IIRC MSFT gets paid a royalty of $10~$15 per copy of Android deployed by carriers, so they do have a hedge.

(Though the fact that they have that hedge in place at all is proof that they are "opponents of Android" which they naturally have to be given their agenda. That makes me think though, is there anything preventing them from jacking up that price 2-3x once WinPhone 8 launches?)

[ZeroGravitas]

Though weirdly they are also complaining to the EU that Google is competing unfairly by selling Android below cost. How you can say that about a product you yourself are charging 15 bucks for is beyond me (disclosure, I think that figure is mostly Microsoft PR/FUD to scare people away from android. Not very successful though.)

[lallysingh]

I think MSFT will prefer power (market dominance) over money any day of the week.