Satya Nadella, Microsoft chief executive, said such gadgets represented a "new form factor" for technology devices. While Microsoft did not say it would bring either of these products to market, it said current pilots with the devices "will inform how these form factors can be built" in the future. Currently, they are being used by a few hundred Microsoft employees. Microsoft has previously attempted to break into the wearable devices.

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