http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/microsoft-to-invest-in-cyanogen-hopes-to-take-android-away-from-google/

Interesting news and could have some potentially fascinating outcomes. One of which could be Cyanogen creating an MS based GAPPS and services for use in phones in china for instances, and i assume would be flashable like gapps are now. Personally, along with the Amazon fork, i think its good to to see there are other options for these services to be built on top of AOSP. While i understand and realize the benefits of doing so, im not exactly thrilled with Google continuously remove things from AOSP and into google services.