FORTUNE -- "I am going to go out on a limb," Al Hilwa, IDC's applications software analyst wrote Monday after Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled its answer to Apple's (AAPL) iPad, "and say that Microsoft's Windows Phone announcement is even more important because it will show us where the synergy is between the phone and the tablet."
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