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To: Typhoon who wrote (123)	10/28/1997 4:41:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

And, just to make it perfectly clear - I think CE is a total JOKE! Have you seen / used / developed under Windows CE? How and why are you making these judgements? I think one big problem here is that everyone thinks MS=Windows 3.1, which was an unstable product I'll be the first to admit. However, if you are judging MS and it's products without evaluating them first, you are doing a great disservice to yourself and any customers you may have.

To: Typhoon who wrote (123)	10/28/1997 8:45:00 PM
From: Jerry Heidtke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

It's not hard to figure out why MS would like WinCE to be the OS "of choice" for embedded systems. Last year, about 200 million new PC's were sold. If an MS OS went on 80% of them, at about $20 a crack, that comes to just over $3 billion in sales. Last year, about 7 billion embedded processors were sold. I've seen an estimate for 10 billion this year. If an MS OS went on only a quarter of this year's embedded processors, with a license fee of only $5 each, that comes to just over $12 billion in sales. Hell, who cares about them funky little PC's, anyways? Jerry