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Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

Posted Apr 28, 2011 9:39 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)
In reply to: Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw) by Hausvib6
Parent article: Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents (Groklaw)

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.


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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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