For a minute, it appeared that Windows 8 would have a bit of extra competition in 2012 from newcomer webOS, a platform that Hewlett Packard was planning to ship on its TouchPad tablet, new smartphones as well as on every PC, pre-installed alongside Windows.
Now HP just announced that it’s not only killing all operations for webOS devices while also essentially shelving webOS, although the wording is more in the line of exploring strategic alternatives for the operating system, but that’s considering ditching its PC business altogether.
Windows 8 vs. webOS, It Could Have Been Epic - Softpedia