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Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 28, 2011 2:34 UTC (Thu) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606)
Parent article: Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

I can't believe this, WP7 is better than Android according to Micorsoft. Why do Microsoft need to make Android (which is worse) more expensive than Microsoft WP7 (which is already better)? WP7 will win without Microsoft doing this sort of thing, right?


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Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 28, 2011 9:39 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976) [Link]

Not really.
Because even if we assume WP7 is better (and I hope MS assumes that), it came later. So you now have a cost to migrate from Android to WP7 (change your hardware, train engineers, port appsÂ…).
Microsoft is using patents to challenge whatever cost estimates you may have regarding Android's (or any competing solution) price.

Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 28, 2011 18:38 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

Yeah, but Microsoft did all that research and testing.....

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