Why not put Phone 7 on Microsoft tablet?
All tech eyes focus on Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, including on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Wednesday evening keynote at which he’s widely reported to be introducing a tablet computer running Windows. Oddly, at least from my perspective, it will run Windows 7 instead of its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system.
A Bloomberg News report from last week reiterated comments Ballmer made last July, in which he said, “We're tuning Windows 7 to new slate hardware designs.” The Bloomberg report continued: “Microsoft is taking software designed for use with a mouse and keyboard and adapting it to a touch screen.”
I may be missing something, but doesn’t Microsoft already have an OS adapted for a touch screen interface, that being Windows Phone 7? It seems to me that Microsoft could give a great shout-out to Phone 7 by adapting it to run on a tablet, as Apple did migrating iOS from the iPhone to the iPad and Google did bringing Android from a variety of smartphones to tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
