But many corporations are moving to iOS devices as their main device depending on the market.
What corporations are these and what Windows substitutes are they running? I work for a 9000 employee company and everything is Office (Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Access), software suites that only run on Windows, or custom apps that only run on Windows.
It's to MS advantage to put Office on iOS because of the sheet number of devices. That gives them tons of profit and can actually shutter Google/Android by only offering it on iOS and their own devices.
MS is not playing for #1 anymore...they are playing for #2. Their enemy is Google, not Apple.
MS is a software company. It's in their best interest to maximize their profit off software by not giving Apple a 30% distribution cut. Apple is a hardware company that treats software as assets to sell hardware. It's in their best interests to flood their tablets with as much software as possible and eat a 30% distribution cut if it means more iDevices will be sold in the future. If they're playing chicken it's in Apple's best interests to cave. Right now they're either screwing with each other to screw with each other or waiting for Apple to redo the Terms and Conditions to make it work without alienating other developers.