Microsoft is also preparing a "smartwatch"

By post The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is working on a "smart watches" with touch controls. Citing unnamed sources from the supply chain, the WSJ claims that Microsoft has asked the Asian suppliers ship the components for the device. If the information is correct, then Microsoft will join the Apple, Samsung, Google and other companies that want to get hold of a surge of popularity of wearable electronics, which is projected in the future.

Remember, this is not the first time Microsoft to create a "smart watch". Back in 2004, the company released a product called SPOT, who used the FM-radio signals to send instant Messaging through Windows Messenger, receive news, stock information and weather forecasts as a paid subscription the service. But production was stopped in 2008, and the project SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology) was finally closed in the past year. Interestingly, the Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton (Bill Buxton) in the past month, thoroughly reasoned on Thread a long history of "wearable", perhaps alluding to the company's return to the market worn computers.

This news comes just days after IDC dismal report last week, in the first quarter of 2013 marked the sharpest decline in the history of the PC industry, which amounted to 13.9% compared to the first quarter of 2012. It seems that this trend is only accelerating instead of slow down due to the release of Windows 8.

In Microsoft declined to comment on rumors, but leakage Redmond generous: for example, last week reportedThat the company is working on a 7-inch tablet Surface, whose release is scheduled for the end of the year.