Can you imagine the HP TouchPad running anything other than WebOS? Currently, the world's top Android hackers are hard at work in fine tuning Android for the originally webOS-powered HP TouchPad. And there are some who have even managed to make Microsoft's Windows 7 run on it, which is pretty impressive. But right now, the folks at HP care about one operating system more than any other to put on the HP TouchPad. And that is none other than Microsoft's upcoming Metro style tablet-optimized Windows 8.
HP is reportedly doing some internal testing of Windows 8 on HP TouchPads as a way to possibly bring it back to market without the help of webOS. It seems a bit weird to me how HP will go out of its way to tweak a device for a certain operating system (that they then would have to pay for in the end, by the way) instead of using what it already owns since it made the initial investment to the tune of $1 billion USD (by buying Palm) recently. But I digress.
It is also reported that HP is looking at companies such as LG, Nikon, HTC, and Amazon as possible buyers of webOS. It really is such a promising mobile OS; here's hoping that whoever gets it from HP next won't let it go to waste.
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