I&#x27;m talking more about &quot;peers&quot; than what I think you&#x27;re referring to as &quot;partners&quot;.  E.g. 3Com as I cite elsewhere, Verizon WRT to the Kin, the company they licensed the start of Internet Explorer from (expected royalty payments never materialized when the gave it away for free), the examples go on and on and on.<p>But I suppose with Balmer the salesman in charge in between Gates and Nadella they&#x27;d avoid sales channel betrayals like that.