Henerey, here is a thought. Lets forget about any NDA's assuming there are some in place. If you are Thomas Sawyer and you are talking to Microsoft and you decide to announce that in a conference call or a press release your stock would probably fly and shareholders would be ecstatic. Then Microsoft decides that they are better off going in another direction and what happens to your stock? Plummets lower than it was. Shareholders lose big time. Maybe then MSFT comes back and low balls you since you are in a weakened position. Trust the BOD.