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Because that's an enourmous amount of work and likely to attract hostile legal action? They didn't even create their own operating system for their phones.


Why then does MS work on Bing? Bing is more likely to infringe on Google's patents than a Windows clone is likely to infringe on MS's patents, not? And Bing is certainly lots of work.


There isn't an API issue there though, and it's not required to work in the same way so it's hard to say that it's more likely to infringe patents.




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