I don't know to what extent SCKT's short or long term success is tied to the success of WinCE, but here's an article about WinCE.
dailynews.yahoo.com
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By most accounts, Palm Computing, a subsidiary of 3Com Corp. (Nasdaq: COMS), has taken an early lead in providing the OS for portable computing devices, one class of information appliances. It's done so by focusing OS on the cause of simplicity. It has targeted one part of the market, rather than creating a single OS to serve a vast array of devices, as Microsoft has done with Windows CE.
Result: More than 5 million Palm devices sold since their introduction or about 80 percent of the market.
"A brand name, like Windows CE, doesn't matter at all. In fact, it probably gets in the way," said Forrester's Rhinelander. "No one cares about the operating system. They need it, but only like they need, say, memory." That's a bitter swallow for Microsoft, which has seen its Windows CE operating system plateau at 13 percent.
Microsoft's rival, Sun Microsystems Inc., has run into similar problems convincing consumer-electronics companies to use its Java technology on pint-sized devices.
Microsoft has created the Universal Plug and Play initiative. "Whatever you put in your home as intelligent devices, the value is increased dramatically, when you connect those devices together," said Shawn Stanford, group product manager for Microsoft's consumer windows division." |
