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.

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Most impressively, Ballmer announced that the company has sold 8 million units of its Kinect motion sensor since its release on November 4th.

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Research in Motion is not expected to release a new PlayBook anytime soon.

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