14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is the kind of company that's always looking for unexplored sides of the market, where it could jump in with a number of innovations and try to gain market share before others do the same thing.
The wearables business is now expanding thanks to new devices released by a plethora of companies across the world and this is a market where Microsoft believes it has its own place.
That's exactly what it hopes to achieve with Windows 10, as the company is already looking at this particular side of the industry that could benefit from the support of its new operating system.
Windows 10 was designed from the very beginning to work on both small and large screens, so wearables could also be powered by the new OS when it becomes available.
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In a statement at MWC, Windows Phone director Greg Sullivan explains that this is indeed the plan, pointing out that wearables and the IoT are two of the businesses that the company is looking at for its upcoming OS version.
"We have designed the operating system to scale across the broadest range of platforms, including Internet of Things, wearables, all the way up to very large displays,” he said in a statement. "The software scales from the very smallest devices, all the way up to the largest super computers in the world."
But there's no guarantee that Windows 10 would actually work on all these devices. Truth is, Microsoft tried an almost identical approach with Windows 8, promising to make the modern OS available on a wider array of devices and offering a similar experience across all platforms.
Windows 10 is projected to reach the market sometime in the second half of the year and Microsoft is working together with testers to shape the new OS as part of the Windows Insider program.