Microsoft’s quiet Android coup

[Wireless News]

Although Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hasn’t fundamentally changed Microsoft’s core business ever since taking over from Steve Ballmer, one thing we’ve-noticed is that Nadella is much better at sticking subtle daggers into rivals. So where Microsoft-under Ballmer used to go after Google with all the subtlety of a steroid-infused elephant with megaphones strapped-to each if its tusks — remember the painfully awful “Scroogled” campaign, for instance — Nadella has been adept at coming up with clever ways to undermine Google’s domination of its own Android mobile platform. RELATED:-Microsoft comes up with another sneaky way to drive a wedge between Google and Android This is why it was so interesting that, as ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley notes, one of Microsoft’s biggest

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