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The Xbox One in the Sky

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Or Sky TV more precisely. Sources familiar with company plans have informed games industry magazine MCV that the box could include a Sky satellite tuner or act as a video recorder in the future, but we’ll also follow suit and suspect only the latter is more probable. The subscription from Sky could well be centred around an Xbox One and pre-installed Now TV or Sky Go application. Couple this with SmartGlass support and you’ve got a winner. Microsoft want to own the living room. So why not replicate the subsidy model used in mobile to gain an advantage over the

Nokia and Microsoft, one shall live only while the other lives as well

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By myself, over on All About Windows Phone: Any reading of Nokia’s current situation in the smartphone world will always include dire warnings of what could befall the Finnish company if Microsoft turn round and do something “evil”. If you are to believe anyone commenting on the Internet, all Nokia then needs to do is say “we are switching to Android” and all will be well for the Finnish company. Nobody ever stops to consider what would happen to Microsoft if that scenario was to happen.

How much of a win for Microsoft is Android?

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For the sake of discussion, let’s use $3 per device as our figure. This number is an estimate, but given all information in the market it’s our best guesstimate. We can now do the math: 860 million Android devices in 2013, of which 65% pay Microsoft a fee, and that fee being $3 leaves Microsoft with $1.677 billion in Android revenue this year. That works out to just over $400 million per quarter, which fits with our earlier statements of Android patent revenue being in the low hundreds of millions. The Next Web looks at just how much Android is