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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (18446)	9/24/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) of 213177

<<If that's true, Microsoft got a great deal. :)>> They might have gotten more than that. A PDA magazine speculated that S. Jobs made a deal with Gates that sold the handheld market to MSFT to spite Compaq. A part or all of the education market went with it for the undisclosed sum that could total half a billion $$. They articles stated that as the reason why Apple dropped the Newton when they did. "Apple had the best handwriting recognition technology on the planet and they dropped it" the article said. The reasoned that MSFT could not convince Compaq to drop development of a Win95 handheld in favor of Cindows CE. They enlisted Jobs to give them free reign for CE to take a bite out of Compaq. Apple's motivation was purely mercenary. -Bill_H

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