At one point, Microsoft was reported to be earning somewhere in the neighborhood of $2B per year in revenues from IP licensing agreements with Android ODMs. I t

At one point, Microsoft was reported to be earning somewhere in the neighborhood of $2B per year in revenues from IP licensing agreements with Android ODMs. I think that's largely fallen away now, but it's not as if Microsoft didn't get a pound of flesh from this platform, commercially. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per-year-from-android-patent-royalties-2013-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per...