Microsoft’s patent-licensing ways continue, going after manufacturers of Android devices with wild abandon and, more often than not, wrangling them into (surely expensive) agreements. Latest to take the bait is LG and, interestingly, this one covers both Android and Google’s little laptop operating system: Chrome OS. With this agreement Microsoft now covers 70 percent of all Android smartphones sold in the US, which is a quite startling figure. And, of course, one could interpolate from this that LG must have designs on making a Chromebook at some point in the not too distant future.
Microsoft signs patent agreement with LG, now covers 70 percent of US Android smartphone market originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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