This IS good news.

Although I would have wonder on how much of this was influenced by the Nokiasoft merger? It's not really like the Apple lawers to back down or settle to an agreement. They would sooner keep dragging companies through the mud as they have shown with nokia in the past.

MS on the other hand, is one of the very few companies that have been able to win battles with Apple as they have both the money and an army of devil spawn lawers on there side. Apple may have realised that they would never win over nokia now they have MS backing and have been looking for a way to reach a settlement since february?