Microsoft has a long history of setting departments to compete between each other, and Kin is, in part, an extension of that. As others have pointed out, long before there was even an idea behind WinPho 7, MS had acquired the Danger platform to expand their company's embrace of 'cloud' services (Azure, sharepoint, office online, etc). This is the next step in their expansion and testing of device specific cloud services. I wouldn't be surprised that the base code of the Win Pho 7 is more precisely the backend of the Kin development effort.
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Microsoft has a long history of setting departments to compete between each other, and Kin is, in part, an extension of that. As others have pointed out, long before there was even an idea behind WinPho 7, MS had acquired the Danger platform to expand their company's embrace of 'cloud' services (Azure, sharepoint, office online, etc). This is the next step in their expansion and testing of device specific cloud services. I wouldn't be surprised that the base code of the Win Pho 7 is more precisely the backend of the Kin development effort.