May 9, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft has to convince people to use the Windows Phone operating system in trouble, but the patent license agreement reached with the Android device manufacturers will bring up this year $ 3.4 billion revenue.
Under the agreement, each Android device can bring up to 8 dollars in revenues for Microsoft, which means that this year, Microsoft receive $ 3.4 billion from the sale of Android devices. Since 2011, Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues annually through the Android.
Android device manufacturers signed a patent license agreement, Microsoft threatened to filed a patent infringement lawsuit and sued a number of companies.Of course, litigation is not the purpose of Microsoft. In recent months, Microsoft convince Foxconn, Nikon, ZTE and many other Android device manufacturers signed a patent license agreement. Motorola Mobile and Huawei has not yet signed with Microsoft Android patent license agreement.
Google spokesman Matt the Kaman (Matt Kallman) to the media, said, "This is the usual tricks of Microsoft and Microsoft need to develop excellent products, but to suppress competition in the market, raise the price of the consumers to buy Android devices . "