With the announcement of Windows 8 combining Metro UI with the Desktop experience, Microsoft is about to become a legitimate player in the tablets market, turning Windows into the most powerful and complete operating system for tablets. Will it change the way organizations are looking to deploy iPads and Android tablets in their businesses, or is it too late?

Previously on “The Truth About HTML5”: We’ve reviewed the changes happening in mobility worldwide, influencing the enterprise world; employees looking to utilize their personal smartphones and tablets for activities that are work related, IT managers looking for zero footprint, device agnostic solutions.

The battle between Android and iOS is fascinating; In smartphones, the fact that for a few years iPhone was available exclusively in AT&T, along with Android's openness, endless flexibility, and variety of forms factors, all made Android a huge success: it is not only a very good alternative to the iPhone – it was the only alternative that provided a decent UI, AppStore, complete touch experience, and of course – the Google experience. During 2010, Android became the leading smartphones OS, but failed to compete with the iOS in the tablets area.

Few months ago Windows Phone 7 was released. It was Microsoft's biggest attempt so far to get back into the mobile competition after losing the crown few years ago to RIM's BlackBerry and later on to iPhone and Android.

(Originally posted at the Mobile Spoon)

Thinking of developing an in-house mobile solution for your enterprise? Think again.

Guest Post by Israel Beniaminy:

Few months ago, right after the release of the iPad, I wrote here, at the mobilefever, that I predict the iPad will create the same kind of revolution the iPhone did for the smartphones world 3 years ago.

"With the recent announcement of SAP's intent to acquire Sybase, the short life of the MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) software category may be approaching its end. The term was coined by analyst company Gartner in 2008 to refer to middleware and tools to support development of mobile enterprise applications, extending these applications to the mobile devices of the workers, at any time and any location. Quite a few companies have positioned themselves as contenders in this category, but Sybase could make a strong case for their claim to be the category leaders.

Few years ago, analysts used to think iPhone will not likely be used in the enterprise. Since the popularity of the device became so strong, many enterprise actually switched to iPhone, "ignoring" the well known limitations and sticking with the fanciness UI, innovative apps and the lack of multi-tasking or keyboard.