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Microsoft hasn’t infirmed rumors about a Verizon “pink” phone.

«Microsoft may be wielding a new weapon in the war against Apple. The company’s rumored to be working on a top-secret smartphone with Verizon. The mission: take out the iPhone. The code-name: “Pink.”»
Read the article at PCWorld.com

Well, considering the Redmond company’s record track of attempts to compete in the field of mobile computing (remember the Zune?) and the fact that the iPhone is king, I’d say Microsoft stands as much chance as the World reaching global peace.

Commenting on the BusinessWeek article announcing that HP Is Studying Android for PC Use, an anonymous reader made the rather pertinent observation that Smartphones appear to be leading the computer industry into the future, where you essentially get a “thin” OS (e.g. Android, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry, WinMo, WebOS, etc.) and you “build” the functionality you want on the device from an app store. If/when HTML5, PhoneGap, BONDI, etc. become mainstream, essentially all the same apps will run on all of the “thin” OSes, so it will simply be a matter of picking the device you like with the user interface you are comfortable with.