Cyanogen has announced that it is ending its operations and seeing as they are a strategic partner with Microsoft, this has an impact on the company's mobile strategy.
Seeing defeat in mobile, Microsoft has orchestrated a series of deals to ensure that its apps and services are bundled on Samsung and other Android devices. But recent news that AT&T and Verizon Wireless would not permit this bundling has been somewhat tempered by a major new bundling deal with Cyanogen, which creates an open…