This is all quite stimulating, but if it were true, wouldn't Scott have made the following announcements, and not Bill? After all, this is the "promised land" that Mcneally is counting on, right?
1) Siemens plans widespread use of Windows CE
MUNICH, Germany, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Siemens AG (OTC BB:SMAWY - news; SIEG.F) said on Thursday it expected to cooperate with Microsoft Corp (MSFT - news). to use the U.S. company's Windows CE software in telephones, automation equipment and other products.
Chief executives William Gates of Microsoft and Siemens' Heinrich von Pierer would meet on Friday and the two companies planned to sign a letter of intent, a Siemens spokesman said.
Windows CE is a compact version of the Windows operating systems for personal computers. It was originally developed for handheld computers.
Siemens declined to give further details.
2) Gates tells of Nokia partnership
By Reuters
February 5, 1998, 5:25 p.m. PT
HELSINKI, Finland--Microsoft (MSFT) chairman Bill Gates today said his company is holding talks with Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia on development of future technology products.
Gates told Reuters and Finnish technology magazine IT-Kananva in an interview that Microsoft was not going to buy part of Nokia nor would Nokia buy part of Microsoft. "We will be able to get together in terms of creating some new products," he said. "There is some good discussion taking place along those lines."
The two companies could combine elements of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system--a compact version of the Windows system--and its Office suite of productivity software with Nokia's wireless infrastructure, Gates said.
Gates said cooperation wit Nokia concerned future products. "Anything we do together is not for the current generation of hardware. They will be developed in the future," he said.
"I consider Nokia a very key partner," he added.
Gates earlier told a seminar that Microsoft's previous vision of "a computer on every desk" could be rephrased as "a computer in every pocket."
"Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a wireless device you can carry around. You can connect this tablet-size PC to the wireless network and get access to the information of your choice," he said in the summary of a speech.
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