In two years, Microsoft will probably be competing with... ...maybe the second or third-generation iPad? ...maybe the forth or fifth-generation iPhone? ...mayb

In two years, Microsoft will probably be competing with... ...maybe the second or third-generation iPad? ...maybe the forth or fifth-generation iPhone? ...maybe Mac OS X Lion, or later? ...whatever might follow the A4 SOC? ...and whatever else Apple is baking in the Cupertino product ovens. Not to mention Android Saltwater Taffy, and Ubuntu Peckish Pixie, or whatever... And then there's HP and their WebOS, RIM, and the various other vendors that are already in or are seeking to get into the ARM and phone and tablet and related markets. And then there's the inherent delay before folks can or will adopt the new Windows platforms. How many folks that are still on WXP and thinking about W7 and WP7 (as good as those are, too) are going to leap onto WARM, after all? Microsoft need to aim way past the existing iOS and Android and WebOS environments here and way past WP7, and they're going to be encountering a massive amount of (new) work as porting can inherently delay or derail parallel new feature development. And then the third-party vendors will need to add support. And then will the existing customers then want to buy WARM products in quantity?