Not just to get into the fast growing smartphone industry, but to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows as the basis for its hardware gadgets.

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So far, people have been most interested in buying films for gadgets such as Apple's iPod or Microsoft's Xbox 360.

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Build the chips, and someone, whether it is Jobs or Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, will help turn them the gadgets consumers will crave.

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Whatever the gadgets to blend the two -- high-speed modems, Microsoft's WebTV, something else -- the public isn't ready yet.

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Microsoft thinks the future is about one operating system that runs on all sorts of gadgets.

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As Microsoft's Windows client marketing manger, the self-confessed "technology geek" has all sorts of gadgets installed that make it seem like something out of a futuristic movie.

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