It is a deep relationship, so isn't such a leap of faith to...

It is a deep relationship, so isn't such a leap of faith to think a takeover is a real possibility:

- Habib Heydarian only left Microsoft mid-year to go full-time at Buddy.

-David McLauchlan spent nearly eleven years at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) before leaving in 2011 to co-found Buddy Platform, Inc. While at Microsoft, David led business development for Microsoft’s Zune hardware business, spent many years in Microsoft’s Windows division and prior to that served in the Server & Tools division working on the Visual C++ product. His international business development experience is considerable, having closed inbound and outbound licensing deals for Microsoft with global partners and customers in the consumer, enterprise, B2B and component industries. David has served as a Technology Partner Network advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Source: Page 49

- Alexander Gounares joined AOL from Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Online Services Division. During his tenure at Microsoft, Gounares led significant strategic and technical operations for some of the company's most important projects including Microsoft's global advertising platform, Bing search, MSN and Microsoft Virtual Earth. Alex also served for three years as Technology Advisor to Microsoft Chairman and founder Bill Gates, as well as Corporate Vice President of Corporate Strategy in Microsoft's Finance Department. Source: Page 50

And this from Microsoft Ventures Global Start-Up day from last year, when Buddy was chosen to be a part of, from the huge list of Microsoft start-ups:
Eleven of the brightest startups from top entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world are joining us at Global Startup Day in San Francisco. The event celebrates startups that graduated from our accelerator and incubation programs and are seeing market traction as a result. Source: Microsoft Ventures