@panoslondon1
Well I agree with your sentiment, I see multiple things with this strategy, but the major ones are:
1. slow down the speed of android, they could achieve this by release interesting enterprise and consumer apps to next leader in the market. Microsoft had worked with Nokia for Symbian and RIM for Blackberry and supported their flagship products on those platforms too in addition to their own Windows Mobile.
2. Microsoft is a software company and want their presence on majority of the leading platforms. On desktop they are supporting Mac in addition to Windows.
3. Microsoft and Apple have an agreement which Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got into, release Office for Mac. I see that they are honoring iOS also as part of this.
4. Extend the domain of XBox beyond Microsoft platforms so they are reachable to more audience and can bring more customers to XBox/Kinect and revenue generating XBL.
5. Microsoft has a history of developing products for Apple platforms and that dates back to 70s or early 80s, I don't exactly remember the date. It is beyond my knowledge because my experience with computing is not that old.
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