Like HTC, Samsung Now Pays Microsoft to Put Android On Its
Phones  Samsung now pays Microsoft for the privilege of selling
Android phones. Of course, it's being called a "partnership."
And yes, we've seen this before: Microsoft also strong armed HTC
into giving them a cut of the profits for every Android device
sold.  Microsoft, sitting on a stack of patents they believe
have been infringed upon by Google's Android platform, has
bullied yet another handset manufacturer into handing cash over.
In fact, between HTC and Samsung, they're going to make more
money off Android than they do Windows Phone 7. And Google isn't
happy about that, calling this move extortion and issuing the
following statement to TechCrunch:   Of course, Microsoft is
also trying to pull the same maneuver on the (now) Google-owned
Motorola, but Moto keeps wriggling out of that conflict. If
Motorola, who has plenty of patents of their own (not to mention
Google's), doesn't budge, what happens next? Will there be a
winner takes all patent war