On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 08:12 , Shiladitya 'Sunny' Ghosh wrote:
> devices produced by these manufacturers use the Symbian operating
> system and
> so phase two of the plan will no doubt be to 'encourage' these
> manufacturers
> off the Symbian platform and onto Windows ]
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> Love 'em or loath 'em you've got to admire the balls of Bill et al.
They have made bold promises to enter this and that market for years and
this has prompted analysts to make bold predictions for years, but those
promises and predictions have yet to materialise.
To the contrary ... MS has traditionally been struggling when they tried
to make an impact outside of the world of desktop PCs. So, don't hold
your breath.
regards
benjamin
Received on Thu Jun 13 14:59:55 2002