SourceCode: Microsoft, Partnerships and the Price of Progress
Sunday, June 24, 2012 at 10:09AM
Updated on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 12:41AM by
Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
This past week has been a transformative one for Microsoft. The Redmond giant previewed their unified desktop and tablet future with the Microsoft Surface announcement at an event in Hollywoog, which in itself was a loaded launch that ushered in Windows 8 on ARM as well as revealed Microsoft’s long term plans as a hardware maker.
They also held a Windows Phone 8 event in San Francisco, where they introduced fragmentation into their mobile OS by announcing a generation shift in their two-year old operating system that will make the upcoming version incompatible with present and past hardware.