HP buying Palm for $ 1.8 billion years ago, some of which are good to buy WebOS will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in business technology. Since the purchase, HP had sloppy handling of WebOS so that now almost an afterthought apart from those who are looking to buy a bargain-basement WebOS-based touch.
This last attempt to save a WebOS might not be working. Existing open source mobile platform, and is the most popular mobile platform on the planet–Android. Given the success of Android, and a broad developer ecosystem that has sprung up around it, it is unlikely that WebOS would get much traction.
Microsoft will be helped by HP to move, not hurt by it. If HP has put developers, manufacturing, and marketing muscle beyind WebOS, imaginable has been a third OS to compete with the iOS and Android, due to the Windows Phone 7 is still not taken off, and Windows 7 tablet is long gone. But by making open source WebOS, HP basically put to Pasture.
Windows 7 tablet will definitely benefit. Colin Gillis, senior tech analyst at BGC partner to the BBC as much. Here's what he said: