Office and Skype will come pre-installed on the Xiaomi from September

Own Hugo Barra, Xiaomi vicepresidene, has announced via Twitter that then Jonathan Tinter, Executive Microsoft reviewed with The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft and Xiaomi narrowed their relationship and have reached an agreement not only to share about 1,500 patents but so that starting in September, all terminals of the Chinese brand that reach the market with applications as Office and Skype pre-installed.

In particular, we can see applications of the Redmond giant in Xiaomi Mi 5, my Max, my 4s, Redmi Note 3 and Redmi 3 that reach the market from September will count among their apps with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Skype, although already the corresponding warning that this could vary between devices, markets and operators.

Expanding the Xiaomi-Microsoft partnership: new deal for Office & Skype pre-install, IP cross-license and patent transfer agreement

-Hugo Barra (@hbarra) June 1, 2016

We must remember that it is not the first time that both companies go hand in hand and already different models of Xiaomi users have at their disposal a ROM 10 Windows Mobile that allows them to test the operating system of Microsoft. In addition, and this is something that is not so known, Xiaomi already uses technology cloud of the American company, Microsoft Azure for your my Cloud service.

• How to install Windows 10 Mobile in the Xiaomi Mi4

Microsoft and Xiaomi, a marriage in the long run

It seems that both companies want to go again and again hand and is not for less, since they complement each other perfectly to their respective objectives. Microsoft wants to give you a good bite to the Chinese market, something that you cannot do with a mobile business that has thrown the towel, and Xiaomi prepares in the West and, in particular, landing in the U.S. what? best to go by the hand of one of their most powerful companies

So both companies think that they have not only reached an agreement at this time, but it has overtones of being a marriage in the long run. The benefits are really interesting for the two because Microsoft removed off his role as manufacturer to achieve the great goal marked by Satya Nadella, place their services to the maximum number of users, and Xiaomi, simply takes advantage not only come from the hand of an American company, but its technology and patents that the Redmond company.

We must remember that the advantage having Xiaomi is that its MIUI is not an Android “to use”. For those who don’t know, it’s a fork, i.e., so to speak, a version of Android customized by the Chinese manufacturer with its services and applications. In this case, your system is fully compatible with applications of Google Play, not as a fork of Nokia X which was the attempt of Microsoft to make an “Android” to his style. Perhaps the merger between Redmond and a much more interesting result Xiaomi.

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