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To: AE who wrote (9155)	2/8/2001 4:48:44 PM
From: James Connolly	Respond to of 10309

Two extracts from two recent articles. After reading the two extracts you got to wonder. MS must look enviously at WIND's market share and position. Ballmer: 'We're now in full motion' zdnet.com eWEEK: What will be really big and revolutionary in the embedded space in the near future? BALLMER: Smarter phones, televisions and the in-home media center. There will be an application that's kind of the gateway to the Internet, it's the home distribution center for music, video, pictures -- its really an application that can run on the PC but might also be a special-purpose box. You have to find something that has broad usage and broad consumer awareness. Microsoft revs embedded effort, previews CE successor eet.com "A recent survey of developers by EE Times revealed that an almost nonexistent percentage now use Microsoft Windows CE, while approximately 36 percent employ an embedded real-time operation system from market leader Wind River (Alameda, Calif.)" Regards JC.