Microsoft plans to stake its claim for a slice of the rapidly-expanding wearables pie, possibly as soon as this summer, with a multi platform-friendly smartwatch, if reports on Thursday are to be believed



From Techradar:

Forbes has received a heads up from its sources, claiming a wrist-mounted device that'll play nice with Android, iOS and Windows Phone is at an advanced stage of development.

According to the report, the computing giant has enlisted the Kinect engineering team to spearhead the device, which will feature a continuous heart-rate monitor, among many advanced sensors.

  Microsoft has reportedly built an iOS and Android-friendly watch with Kinect skills