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Released: December 31, 2012
2012: When mobile shaped the future of computing
Source: Devindra Hardawar, VentureBeat.com (Washington Post) (Free Registration)
This year, the mobile industry showed us what lies ahead for computing. We saw surprising new devices that gave us a glimpse at what personal computers could look like several years from now. We got an operating system that straddles both desktop and mobile. And we watched manufacturers obsessively refine what smartphones and tablets can be.
But this year, Microsoft finally started to matter, posing even stronger competition to Google and Apple with both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. The software giant showed that the next platform wars will be all about uniting the desktop and mobile — something that Google and Apple still need to work on.
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