"This doesn't mean that we will reach an agreement," Richard said in the interview, which aired on BFMTV. He added that any deal with Microsoft would be primarily "industrial," and that Orange would likely retain a majority stake in Paris-based Dailymotion, which was founded in 2005. Yahoo bid for a controlling stake in Dailymotion last year, but the deal was ultimately blocked by the French government, which is a minority owner of France Telecom-Orange. Orange has in the past been keen to expand Dailymotion to the US market, in a bid to challenge YouTube.