Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

I'm with Bearpaw on this one. Phillips dropping CE is news. MS's FUD isn't.

Registered: Sep 1999
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A Public Bow�..
Your Comments were directed toward MS PR and not them in general, My Bad. They do have a tendency to well make stuff up. I guess there has to be some advantage to having a whole bunch of Monopolies.


Peace
Bryan

PS what is FUD?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 42

FUD
Fear
Uncertainty
Danger

As in a company (ie. MS) releasing misinformation to the public in order to induce fealings of 'FUD' towards a copmpetitor's product. IBM was also a big player in this sorta' marketing.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 33

The Microsoft monster has probably only felt a slight pin prick from the little baby Handspring. By next year though, if the Visor continues to be as popular as it appears to be now AND people start defecting from Windows CE PDA's, THEN the battle of the operating systems will have begun.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Some have speculated that since Palm and Handspring have already tied there fortunes to each other, maybe Hawkins will end up the head of an independent Palm/Handspring alliance to fend off Microsoft. Crazy? Time will tell...

[This message has been edited by happyboy (edited 10-12-1999).]

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 42

I guess the good side of such competition is (hopefully) that whatever happens we'll continue to get better and better PDA's.

(And of course it would sure be nice to see the Palm platform kill Windows CE... oops, letting true alliances shine through)

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Metro Station, Hollywood and Highland
Posts: 1018

By next year, nobody will have defected from using CE, because nobody's using it now!

P.S. The D in FUD is for "doubt" -- as in "I doubt WinCE has a future."

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 42

'Doubt 'Danger' eh?!

Thanks for the correction.