According to reports, a Microsoft Touchscreen Smartwatch is in the works, and apparently the company is also working on it’s own smartphone. But this has not been confirmed by Microsoft yet.
If rumours are to be believed, a few months back Microsoft asked their Asian suppliers to ship components of what seemed to be a watch-styled device. Microsoft seems to have been interested in this area since quite a few years back, when it developed the Smart Personal Object Technology to personalize devices that are a part of our daily lives through smart software. Watches that had SPOT based application arrived in the markets in 2004, but were discontinued in 2008.
Microsoft has developed Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets already, and is reportedly working on a seven-inch tablet. As for it’s smartphone, it has worked with partners like Nokia for the Windows Phone platform already, so the company being interested in developing it’s own smartphone isn’t that hard to believe.
The idea of a touchscreen smartwatch seems to be in the mind of other big developers too, as Apple is already working on an iOS-based smartwatch and Samsung is working on a smartwatch-based project as well. Google might be interested too, but currently it’s more focused on it’s Glass project, as the prototypes should be released sometime this year. It was Pebble that first started this business, with it’s customizable watch.