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That's a great narrative, but the project lives on ala the nature of open source. http://lineageos.org/

We'll see in a few months how viable is it.

I want to read the full story, including how Microsoft was involved with Cyanogen(Inc/Mod).

At one point CyanogenInc partnered with MSFT so they have a Microsoft sponsored Android flavour with several Microsoft apps preinstalled. https://cyngn.com/press/cyanogen-announces-strategic-partner... http://www.businessinsider.de/why-microsoft-cuddled-up-to-cy... smells like MSFT common EEE strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish to hit Google's Android market, especially now as their WinPhone market is dead with less than 1% of world wide market share.