Microsoft's Potential Future In Mobile

Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman recently said, “The phone is already dead -- people just haven’t realized.” He made this statement while discussing Microsoft’s HoloLens and potential future iterations of similar mixed-reality devices, which could be eventually be integrated into our daily lives much like the smartphone is today.

Kipman may be right. But that future is a long way off, and Microsoft has effectively vanished from the current smartphone market. A recent project between Microsoft and Qualcomm hints at Microsoft's potential future plans, however...

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