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

Who cares?

[mosch]

Does anybody here really give a shit? I mean, honestly, for a site that bitches about MS so much, slashdot gives them a helluva lot of free press.

Why not spend the effort advertising the Sanyo SCP-5150 instead, a very cool, full-feature phone that can meow out of the box, in addition to the normal wireless web, color LCD, blah the fuck blah.

Or maybe we could concentrate on the Kyocero palm-phones, available for sale right this very instant, interoperates with all your stuff, and is a really cool phone.

Let's stop watching MS pull out the same old bullshit, but with a start button, and start advertising products that matter, and don't support monopolies!

Re:Neat!

[eyeball]

I can't believe people still think MS Blue Screen jokes are funny. Here, let me get it all out of the way for you:

- New MS toaster OS: "huh, why is my toast blue."
- New MS space shuttle OS: "ground control, we have a blue screen of death." "roger that".
- MS OS used in making of Star Wars Episode 3 no doubt entitled "wait till the clones come home" or something): "huh, too bad they didn't blue screen when they made Jar-Jar"
- New 'Back Massager' to include MS OS: (I'll leave that one alone)
- Remake of six-million dollar man, with bionics based on a MS OS: "Steve just bluescreened."

For god sakes get a life/job/girlfriend/pet.