This would be the smartest thing MSFT could do to make themselves relevant in the phone space. They need to build their own hardware. If they don't they will ne

This would be the smartest thing MSFT could do to make themselves relevant in the phone space. They need to build their own hardware. If they don't they will never get anywhere because HTC are building Android phones as fast/faster than WP7 phones. They need to do the Xbox strategy and build a killer device with their own killer software and then have 3rd parties line up to dev for it. It worked for Apple. It works for Nintendo and Sony. It works for Microsoft. Why they continue to try the PC clone model when Android already has that locked up is beyond me. It made sense to do the clone thing when you were cloning IBM PCs for cheaper. Android is cloning iPhones "for cheaper". I don't think you can have two competing "standards" in the same market for commodity platforms. See HD-DVD, Betamax, MiniDisc, real media, and windows media formats for details on how this usually works out.