Here's one good reason why I don't want any piece of "Microsoft software" to be embedded in Android phones: Microsoft Thinks DRM Can Solve the Privacy Problem:

Here's one good reason why I don't want any piece of "Microsoft software" to be embedded in Android phones: Microsoft Thinks DRM Can Solve the Privacy Problem: > "Under the model imagined by Mundie (a senior advisor to the CEO at Microsoft), applications and services that wanted to make use of sensitive data, such as a person’s genome sequence or current location, would have to register with authorities." http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520226/microsoft-thinks-drm-can-solve-the-privacy-problem/ http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520226/microsoft-thinks... Microsoft still has a lot of this "let's be dicks to make more money" culture inside the company, and until that changes, I want nothing to do with them anymore, and the fact that there are starting to be some serious alternatives to Windows now that are becoming increasingly more mature, makes me happy. I'd like it to remain that way, instead of having Microsoft crawl back to its former power. You may think "Google does some bad stuff, too", but so far I've seen absolutely no evidence that Microsoft is better in any way than Google, and it's usually worse. So if that's the "choice" that's being offered (ironically by forcing themselves into our phones), then I want none of it. It's like saying Romney was a "choice" to Obama. Sure it was - an even worse one. What I'd like to see more of is more open source operating systems becoming successful in the mobile world, like Ubuntu Touch or Sailfish or even Firefox OS.