Microsoft gearing up to make smartphones, tablets and PCs in company-saving strategy shift

. Microsoft (MSFT) is currently in the midst of a major transition unlike anything the company has dealt with in the past. According to our own sources and multiple subsequent reports, Microsoft is working on its own smartphone. While this would mark the first time Microsoft has launched a self-branded smartphone (we're not counting the KIN), the implications for the company are much greater than just a phone.

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