Any advancements made by Research in Motion and the release of its BB10 operating system will only increase the pressure on Microsoft to execute, but this could be both good and bad.

FORBES: Microsoft Is Still Finding It Difficult To Catch Up To Apple

For one thing, Microsoft beat up on Palm the same way it took out many of its competitors in the desktop OS space: by putting pressure on hardware vendors to use its operating system, and offering it at a price they couldn't refuse.

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