> I'm not sure what other reason there is that Microsoft would have to write checks to Nokia. Microsoft is already in the habit of paying companies to force th

> I'm not sure what other reason there is that Microsoft would have to write checks to Nokia. Microsoft is already in the habit of paying companies to force their users to use Bing search (see Verizon replacing Google search with Bing on some of their Android phones). Though for Nokia's sake I hope they're not getting paid per use but per device. Bing's quality outside the US is dreadful, so the vast majority of Nokia's customers are either getting a crappy experience or will somehow need to replace the default search engine.