Microsoft to charge royalty fees in netbooks

Microsoft most probably sees Android as a pretty large threat when it comes to mobile operating systems, and has plans to impose royalty fees on Taiwan-based vendors of Android handsets such as Acer and Asustek for using its patents in e-mail, multimedia and other functions. This might just scare both companies from adopting Android and Chrome OS for their netbook and tablet devices. HTC isn’t affected since they have already signed for licensed use of Microsoft patents. Currently, since Android is an open platform, vendors of Android handsets will have to pay royalty fees of US$10-15 per handset at the minimum for licensed use of the patents concerned. Does this make the 800 lbs gorilla seem even more mean?