Consumers aren't going to tolerate that kind of lock-in, and in many cases will use Google just the same. In order for Microsoft to actually get anything out o

Consumers aren't going to tolerate that kind of lock-in, and in many cases will use Google just the same. In order for Microsoft to actually get anything out of this, they're going to have to treat Android as a first-class platform, and beat the user experience of Google Maps, Search, Voice Search, Gmail, Goggles, and so on on Android. Microsoft doesn't have those kind of engineering chops. They can barely even manage a decent UX on Windows Desktop. (We'll see about Windows Phone 7, but I will be very surprised if it's legitimately better than Android, even Android with Bing baked-in.)