I feel the headline is quite exaggerated. It is interesting news. We heard a while ago that Microsoft was investing in Cyanogen, and it turns out that this isn

I feel the headline is quite exaggerated. It is interesting news. We heard a while ago that Microsoft was investing in Cyanogen, and it turns out that this isn't just a financial relationship. They are also going to have the Microsoft set of apps as an option on Cyanogen. Still, this isn't "taking Android's future out of Google's hand." The Android code is and has been open source, which is what enables things like Cyanogen to exist, so there is nothing new there. All that we learned of here is of an option to bundle Microsoft apps on Cyanogen; that might interest some vendors, but it doesn't seem like a game changer. Other apps have been bundled on various non-Google Android devices in the past.