Would you trust this face?

I was browsing around the web and came across this piece by Jon Fortt over at the Fortune Tech site in which Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices & Applications Group, admitted that a team of Microsoft Engineers has been getting comfortable with the iPhone SDK. he mentioend that the focus would be extending Office Functions onto the iPhone and iPod touch. So he’s mainly talking software development no surprise there. However, I’m wondering how long it will take Microsoft to produce their own iPhone/Touch like device. After all they have Surface which is basically like an iPhone in table form. Now that they have the SDK what’s to stop them from getting out the copy machines and start copying features to put in the next generation of their Windows Mobile Software and hardware. I think its inevitable lets see if they do a better job this time than they did with the Zune and Vista. BTW the Surface idea is really cool they just need Steve Jobs to refine it, miniaturize it and market it… Oh Steve already did that with the iPhone my fault ;-).