Microsoft are reportedly investing in Cyanogen, Inc. They have not acquired them to the best of my knowledge. Is there a source that confirms it?

Cyanogen, the commercial version of the OS is not open source, like at all I think. And I bet that if Cyanogen becomes much more successful, within 5 years they'll completely give up on officially supporting the open source version for other phones, too. They'll just see it as an extra cost that gives them little benefit (in comparison to their success then) and as harming of their "exclusivity" for certain phones. So they'll kill it. Cyanogen seems like a very self-interested company to me, and is willing to backstab anyone as long as it puts them at a higher level in the market.

Never forget that the core product of Microsoft is Windows, and most of people are forced paying a new license with each new computer. So any decision MS makes is,as an ultimate goal to sell windows licenses. Today there is a consensus on Open Web Techs. Nobody can tell if it will still be the case 5 years from now.

I think this is far less true. Many of Microsoft's recent decisions arguably have no net benifit to Windows, and in some cases could be seen as counter productive. The lockin is no longer for Windows, but Azure and Microsoft's tools.

Latest financials here: http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

It's a little tricky to read the Windows impact since (as I read it) it falls into both Commercial Licensing (for business sales) and Devices and Comsumer (for consumer sales). Some articles which break it down a bit:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8936/microsoft-q2-fy-2015-fina...

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/hardware-surprisingl...

So while the exact percentages aren't obvious, the big picture is that Windows is definitely significant, but Microsoft has become a lot more than Windows.

[I work for Microsoft until they notice I'm wasting time on Hacker News and "fix the glitch".]

The core products of Microsoft are now Office and Azure.

(And having a fast web helps Office 365.)