I wouldn't be surprised at all if they come out with windows phone 8 based on windows 8 and not windows mobile. That way they could have one os for phones/table

I wouldn't be surprised at all if they come out with windows phone 8 based on windows 8 and not windows mobile. That way they could have one os for phones/tablets/pc's/ect. They could use their market/repository as a way to force people to modify uis. Since all of the 3rd party apps are written in a version of silverlight(they haven't dropped this restriction yet right?) it should have few incompatibilities.