Microsoft's recent agremment with ARM, has one clear impact: it might has lost a round, but as far as the Redmond guys are concerned, the war is on, and they intend to improve .... remembering Microsoft's past in the browser's war, and seeing the difference between Vista and Seven, it is quite clear that future mobile devices coming from MS will be interesting...
Although claims in the referred post suggest that this might be an XBox oriented move, I'd be very surprised If MS has chosen to give up what appears to be the hottest gadget's market of the near future. Regardless of what computing equipment might be waiting for us at home and work at year 2015, some form of an intelligent device will be carried by us on the way, when travelling, or just having fun in our leisure. At the moment it seems that tablets and smartphones are completing gadgets and not competing ones, and under this assumption, I believe MS will use the new ARM contract to rebuild its failing projects of a tablet and a smartphone. Kin and Slate are dead, but their replacements are under work as I'm writing this post... another year from now, we'll know more...
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