Flair, re: Windows CE 2.0
Thanks for the most informative post.
As has been discussed in earlier posts, Windows CE is Microsoft's vehicle for the smaller platforms, including present or future handhelds, TV set-top boxes (WebTV, cable, satellite...), embedded functions (TV, car...), thin client terminals (Winterm/Hydra) and who-knows-what as costs continue to decline.
At the same time, CE maintains and/or increases the value of Windows/9x and NT, by proliferating it and thus leveraging the astronomical investments in the Windows APIs, by ISVs, end users and Microsoft. [I.e., just as earlier the NT helped the Windows API and was itself helped.] The name of the game is synergy.
Microsoft is also aggressively investing in speech technology, which appears to be on the verge of taking off, with some good software packages and powerful/cheap uniprocessors in the offing.
Could it be that, a la Red Dwarf, we may wind up talking with ... toilets?
Where do you want to go today?
[Vending machines and toasters, too.]
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Truth is often stranger than fiction.
Best regards,
Arno
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