Re: [NTLK] Just need a rant...

From: RedGhost (dredghost_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 20:12:40 EST


This is just from my vantage point, as a former minion of M$, and observing
how they have been really trying to get into the handheld marketplace. By
getting Apple to kill the Newt, Bill was able to focus his battle on one
front instead of two. He has had his knickers in a messy twist for years in
an attempt to get the rest of the world to believe that WinCE is a valid OS
that actually can gain share on the Palm. To date, I have seen little from
the IT world to warrent his reality Distortion Field (Maybe that is what he
bought for $150 Mil) as each iteration of the tablet, wince, and whatever he
is calling it now fall far short of corporate acceptance or user perceived
value. Maybe he should stick with buggy software and leave the hardware to
the people who know something about it. And what made him thing somebody
wanted to waste $300 on a PC in a BOX that is already yesterdays tech?

-- 
Clay

If I had to bet on a legitimate competitor to Windows, I would place my money on Apple's Mac OS X. Henry Baltazar; EWEEK - 01/21/2002

> > Anyway, I heard a rumour that it wasn't a lone gunman (SJ) that killed the > Newt, apparently, Big Billy Gates had his dirty paws all over it too!!! > Rumour has it that he injected a *whole* > lotta cash into Apple (which we know as fact) and one of his bargaining chips > was to kill the Newton, so that Win CE could take over that market space > (which is conjecture). Does > anyone else have any extra info on this? Or am I plainly wrong?

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