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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (16251)	1/18/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Give me a break...WindowsCE is not a monopoly, not even close. There is no relation between the dominance Windows95 on x86 and the newbie WinCE, a nacent platform; hence no way for them to "leverage their monopolistic position." Get some perspective, will you? The only thing that WinCE has going for it is that being from Microsoft gives it credibility. That's all, and that's perfectly fine. What did they to 3Com (who, BTW, got PalmPilot from US Robotics, who got PalmPilot from acquiring Palm Computing) with the naming thing was simply a business tactic. And they do have a valid* argument in that "laptop" is used on your lap, "HandHeld PC" is used in your hands, and "PalmPC" is used in your palm. * Valid in terms of logic.

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (16251)	1/19/1998 3:27:00 AM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith, If they make CE the de facto standard in palm tops and the palm OS of 3COM fades and 3Com must buy CE from MSFT, you have a classic exclusionay monopoly. MSFT can price the CE at the point where 3Com makes a loss on each palm pilot they sell and MSFT makes a profit, since they get a CE fee from 3Com, and pay no fee to themselves to use their own CE. Well, such is the marketing power of MSFT. Like most of us on this thread, I am in awe of the dynamics of the money-making-machine that is MSFT. But, unlike some of us, I do not attribute the development of this awesomeness to MSFT's early on having had marketing and legal people who are any smarter than those in other companies (not to say that they aren't smart). It's just that no other company (except for perhaps Gary Kildall's Digital Research) had the good luck of being positioned to do so.