Personally, i think microsoft were just scared of losing the tablet platform to apple and google. Desktops, or x86, very possibly aren't going to be common in t

Personally, i think microsoft were just scared of losing the tablet platform to apple and google. Desktops, or x86, very possibly aren't going to be common in the forseeable future. Windows is their clear competitive advantage to leverage. Many full desktop apps will be compilable to run on ARM, and lets not forget MS's own software; full office and internet explorer put windows8 ahead of the competition re: serious work already. (Besides windows phone has already bombed on phones, no reason to suspect it to fair any better on tablets). Going forward it will be much easier to develop for both platforms. This is a very similar approach to the XBOX; there is an easy way to make software for both platforms.