Microsoft039s Windows 8 Management Angers Manufacturers

After Microsoft's unveiling of Windows 8 at the D9 conference yesterday, we were a little perplexed.

One OS for both PCs and mobile devices? Don't manufacturers make hundreds of different variations with gajillions of different configurations for tablets and PCs? How's it going to work? Microsoft's answer: we'll rule the hardware manufacturers with an iron fist. Okay, that was a bit of a paraphrase, but not much of one if industry reports are any indication.Acer's CEO, Jim Wong, sums it up differently. They're really controlling the whole thing, the whole process,� he told the crowds at Computex earlier this week, a day before the Wall Street Journal ran an article claiming that Microsoft told chip-makers Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments to select one hardware manufacturer apiece to work with on Windows tablet development, in order to speed up the process.

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