Too many assumptions
"But MS isn???t big enough to just pull out gracefully. Instead they want to get the cut they probably don???t deserve. They refuse to take their loses like an adult???be the gracious loser and pull out of a market they don???t belong in."
Basically it seems to me that you think SamSung is naive, Microsoft is bad, and that is all that is important... Do you think that Steve called up SamSung and said "hey, you better pay us good or you will see what happens!..." and the terrified people at Samsung said "oh, sir, forgive us. Just give us an account number"! Not probably....
Chances are Microsoft had a strong case, presented it to samsung and we know just the results. Samsung is a giant corporation as you may know, and not a bunch of corporate idiots...
About the mobile phone market... you better take your hands on a few WP7 handsets to get yourself a more polished opinion... I did it and also used a few Android phones and 2 iPhones and there is some strong points on Windows Phone, I think. About the mobile world, one more point: Windows 6.5 is also very productive I believe. And my 4 years old SE K790 symbian phone has copy and paste and multitasking...
