Microsoft's tough demands on manufacturers involves only four actors will introduce the surf boards with Windows RT in 2012. The rest are forced to wait until early next year. In addition to Microsoft's Tablet Surface is silent on future devices with Windows RT, although a number of partner manufacturers will be on the track and prepare products using Windows for ARM. Now it appears that Microsoft keeps manufacturers under heavy review in order to focus development resources on a smaller number of tablets.
According to the China Economic Times , Microsoft's instructions to the chip manufacturers to choose two OEMs each for the initial development of surf boards to Windows RT. Nvidia managed to win Asus and Lenovo, while Texas Instruments raised the Toshiba. Qualcomm formed teams with Samsung and HP, but the latter left the latter co-operation to focus on x86-based devices.
The strict control of manufacturers, however, will ease in January, when Microsoft allows more players to license Windows RT. Probably it means that only a few ARM-based surf boards with Microsoft's new operating system will find on the market during the year and the big wave comes in early 2013.
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