Microsoft Enters the Cell Phone OS Market

PuZZLeR writes: "Today, Microsoft unveiled a new operating system for mobile phones (named 'Windows Powered Smartphone 2002') and plans to fully enter the wireless data devices with voice capabilities by utilizing both cellphones and PDA devices. TI already created a reference design for the Ms powered phone. While this sounds like Microsoft is going after Handspring, RIM or Danger, cellphone OS manufactures, like Nokia and OpenWave are expected to counteract to the announcements. Today, Nokia announced it will offer mobile phone makers its own development kit and OS."

Comments

Re:I can see it now...

[alex_siufy]

Actually, no. Nokia just announced their alternative to Microsoft's junk...

Semi-duplicate post?

[Raetsel]

Gee... if /. gets to post duplicate (but slightly different) stories, does that mean I have to repost my comments -- but slightly altered?

I refer to this comment.

I referred to better pictures of the Journada 928,

• infoSync's article [infosync.no] has a much better picture of the Jornada 928 [infosync.no] than the token thumbnail Forbes provides.

And then went on to talk about the OS on it:

• They also have an article about what has been added to WinCE [infosync.no] (guess I know why MS calls it PocketPC now...) to turn it into a mobile phone-integrated PDA. There are six (!) pages of screen shots in that one. You can also look forward to "...Mobile Information Server (MIS) 2002 Enterprise Edition, which adds Server ActiveSync..." -- here's ANOTHER pie MS wants to sell you pieces of.

  The interesting thing is that ringtones -- which phone companies want to charge you for -- aren't there. Instead, you can assign .WAV files as ring tones, and specific files for specific callers. Wonder what the motivation for that move is...?

  Still... I want one!

Oh well... if they can cut-n-paste, I guess I have to as well.

Re:Who cares?

[powerlinekid]

Actually this is slightly offtopic but IBM is the worlds largest software company, its just that while the software is commercial IBM's biggest customer is itself.