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Intent is important. Microsoft is using those patents to disrupt an ecosystem it deems threatening to its need to (illegally) leverage its desktop OS monopoly into the mobile space in order to gain market share there. Android is a threat to Microsoft's desktop market because it furthers the trend away from PCs and towards mobile devices. Microsoft is also using its "war chest" to threaten less well financed players w…
>its need to (illegally) leverage its desktop OS monopoly into the mobile space in order to gain market share there Huh, how can that happen? Is MS forcing PC OEMs to bundle Windows Phones with their PCs? If intent is important, then all of Apple's lawsuits against Android will be thrown out, since Apple can be construed as trying to gain a monopoly in the mobile phone market. >Oh yes, I am criticizing Microsoft. Let…
Oh.. You didn't see the aggressive downvoting I got right after posting the comment. It seems Microsoft fans concentrate on the East coast of the US while Microsoft hostile crowd favors the West coast.
Either that or their astroturfing crowd is very quick in finding Microsoft-hostile comments and that creates the downward trend before the general crowd overwhelms them.