Microsoft makes a deal with Lenovo and strengthens position in Android !

Lenovo will begin to pre-install Microsoft productivity tools on some of its Android devices. This is the result of an agreement deepens the relationship between the two technology companies and increases Microsoft's footprint in the operating system of Google rival.

Tools like Office, one-drive and Skype will now be native applications in some high-end devices Lenovo's Chinese operating on the Android platform. According to official information released by Microsoft , Lenovo plans to distribute these equipment over the next few years, although no practical dates. Microsoft also said no details about the devices involved in this partnership .

In addition , the alliance also covers a patent sharing program , which covers both Lenovo devices like Motorola marks , which passed into the hands of Chinese technology in 2014. Under this partnership , Microsoft will make available to Lenovo access to some of its patents.

Microsoft believes that the sharing of intellectual property is the engine of innovation and a source of the technology industry growth. In late 2003 , the Redmond giant launched its IP licensing program, and since then has already signed more than a thousand patents sharing agreements .

This partnership , which seeks to entrench Microsoft technologies on devices with the Android operating system , is announced a few months after the technology of Redmond and his archenemy Google have signed an agreement of "cessation of hostilities " .
this armistice led to the two companies would give up 18 court cases concerning both the misappropriation of proprietary technologies such as monopolistic practices .