http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/02/10/mircosoft_threatened_by_hp_webos/
When the world’s largest computer maker announced that it plans to equip laptops and desktops with its own operating system, you can be sure that the squeals emanating from Redmond’s corner offices were not squeals of delight. And we’re guessing the denizens of Cupertino’s executive suites pricked up their ears as well.
On Wednesday morning, at a press event unveiling its new webOS-based TouchPad and a pair of webOS phones, HP said that it would bring its Palm-acquired operating system “to the HP devices with the broadest reach,” meaning PCs. And Just to make sure that no one missed the implications of that blockbuster, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP’s personal systems group, stood in front of a slide that included images of laptop and desktop PCs with “HP webOS” emblazoned on their displays.
Bradley provided no details about HP’s webOS-on-computers plans, such as what levels of devices are planned, but he did say that webOS PCs would appear “later this year.”
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Getting interesting.