Samsung and Microsoft reportedly looking towards to burying the war hatchet

A few weeks ago, Microsoft filed in a lawsuit for Samsung in a New York court, as the largest smartphone vendor in the world allegedly hasn't been paying Redmond its patent-related fees. The two giants have been engaged in a cross-patent partnership for quite some time, but ever since Samsung's overall smartphone sales have increased more than 400%, the latter has reportedly been looking for a way to cancel the contract. According to a report from Korea Times, however, the two frenemies are now sitting on the table so as to iron out the differences between themselves and end the patent war outside a court of law.


This temporary ceasefire would be beneficial for both Samsung and Microsoft, as they collaborate between one another on quite a few levels. Samsung uses a number of Microsoft-owned patents that regard the Android OS (for a fee, of course), while Redmond uses some Samsung-owned wireless patents on its own, too. Apart from patents, the two major corporations benefit from one another in the field of cloud computing and the recently-trendy Internet of Things. What's more, Samsung is one of Microsoft's largest partners that make use of the Windows Phone – well, not as often as it uses Android, that is.