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A Single Ecosystem for PCs, tablets, phones and TVs →

Nilay Patel reporting for This is my next

Lees went on to say that Microsoft wants to provide “coherence and consistency” across different devices, “particularly with Xbox,” and that the goal isn’t just to share UI

In which world does it make sense to have the same UI as you have on your PC on your tablet, your phone and your TV when all four have different screen sizes, resolutions and methods of input? Then the above sentence continues like this:

, but also core technologies like Internet Explorer.

Speechless…

There is however one positive side to all of this. It goes a little like this:

Our sources also tell us that Microsoft is seriously considering ditching the “Windows” brand name in favor of something new when all this goes down.

So when can I get my hands on all this universal UI so I can make fun of it, you ask? Well you can around 2016 if, you know.. the market hasn’t changed by then and Microsoft ships on time.

Microsoft has received five times more income from Android than from Windows Phone →

Horacle Dediu:

Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a patent settlement with HTC over intellectual property infringement. Microsoft is suing other Android phone makers, and it’s looking for $7.50 to $12.50 per device, says Pritchard.

If this is true Microsoft is either Doing it Wrong™ with Windows Phone 7 or Doing it Right with patent extortion.

I’m wondering if it might not even be more profit’s per phone then Google is making out of Android.