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To: MskiHntr who wrote (29038)	3/17/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 45548

Microsoft Sizes Up Small Device Market Reuters - 03:07 p.m Mar 17, 1999 Eastern HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software company, said Wednesday that it believes it will be successful in its pursuit of the market for hand-held computers and Internet devices. Microsoft Europe Product Manager Greg Levin told Reuters that smaller and cheaper products using its Windows CE (compact edition) software would be successful in the market created by companies like 3Com Corp of the U.S. with its Palm Pilot and others like Psion Plc . ''The first 200 million computer owners used Wintel machines -- (PCs using Intel Corp chips and Microsoft's Windows software) the next 800 million will not,'' 3Com chief executive officer Eric Benhamou was recently quoted as saying. infoseek.go.com o~~~ O