The combination of the two enabled HP, Dell, and Lenovo to introduce tablets that provided the consumer-friendly features of the iPad while allowing enterprise IT to use the same security, provisioning, deployment, management, service, and repair processes and tools as their Windows 7 PCs.

FORBES: The iPad's Uncontested Enterprise Run Is Over

Windows Mobile devs should start dotting their I's and crossing their T's, because Microsoft's going to be ready to take a good, hard look at their latest and greatest apps come the 27th of this month when the company finally swings open the doors to the submission processes for inclusion in the Windows Marketplace.

ENGADGET: Windows Marketplace taking app submissions on July 27, coming to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 later this year