Supply chain said PCs began to turn Android R&D resources to Win8

Win8”), and more focused on the development of Win8 products. With Microsoft recently announced plans to inject $300 million into Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader business, the news pointed out that Microsoft has been making up for the lack of short-lived mobile applications, which will help connect PCs, tablets and smartphones. The ecosystem drives designers to focus more on developing Win8 applications.

Due to weak demand for Android tablets, PC brands such as Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Dell have shifted their focus from Android to Win8 tablets, and the software development team will focus on Android to Win8 applications.

Compal currently has an engineering software development team of nearly 1,000 people. They recently said that they have divided a team of 300 engineers to focus on developing Win8 applications, and they will be conservative on Android system development.