> what OS dominance can MSFT use to leverage into the nascent small-consumer-devices market?
My theory is that these small devices (palm tops, auto pc ,etc.)
will become more and more popular in the future (let's not even
mention Smart cards) ....
Now, If I were MSFT ... The first thing I would do is make sure
the Palm Pilot is absolutely not compatible with 95, NT, CE, etc ...
Next, I would make the Palm Pilot require a 3rd party software
to import, export XLS, DOC and specially e-mail based file ...
(e.g. pst and pab (exchange/outlook based files)
Lastly, MSFT doesn't support off-line or on-line browsers for the PalmPilot.
Not too many users will buy 3coms palm pilot if they can't read or transfer their Excel, Word, Outlook/Exchange file from their desktop.
And just for hah's I am going to give away CE for free???
Or how about this, any customers who purchase any device running
CE can get a coupon for a free upgrade to WIN98.
Michael fades, jumps, shoots, shooooshhh, nothing but NET.
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