Imagine for one moment if microsoft was reliant on NVEI to produce their "technology" and that they were basing the future of their broadband roll-out on the completion of this working technology.
If you ponder this for more than a moment, what do you think you would do if you were bill gates?
Would you sink the 10 million in, to get the chip done? Would you spend 50 million to make it get done yesterday? would you go and buy another companies technology because it's working and available? How about it, why would anyone believe that there is even the slightest chance that NVEI could be involved with microsoft?