Following up on the patent truce story
As I wrote then...
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/10/01/google_microsoft_patent_agreement/
Spurious claims that Microsoft was going to slaughter Android with patents are tossed in the bin.
I hope Google was wise enough to include all of Microsoft's proxies and puppets in the deal.
Microsoft hasn't got it in them to give up the sneak attacks and dirty tricks. They call it "hardball" and are quite proud to lead the league. They will always believe this one is plausibly deniable, that one was survival essential. They will just say "well, we just weren't sneaky enough before, because we got caught, so this time we will apply the triple blind double-sneak and be golden.
Cheaters cheat. Liars lie. It's not what they do, It's what they are.