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Gates Releases Details on New Mobile OS

Posted by Zonk on from the little-blue-screens dept.

rjelks writes "Microsoft's Bill Gates released details about the company's new mobile operating system, code-named Magneto, at the Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas today. There has been a lot of recent speculation about the new OS. People have been describing it as a possible 'Blackberry killer.' Windows Mobile 2005 will be released to hardware manufacturers immediately. The OS will integrate Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems into one platform. It will also include updates to the mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint." Relatedly, ZDNet has an interview with Gates about the initiative.

3 of 265 comments (clear)

  1. Let me... by Metteyya · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, but does it run Linux?

    Oh, wait...

  2. Not _another_ OS from Gates! by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll
    Hasn't Gates done enough damage with his shit software without creating yet another bad software foundation for the industry to adapt to? I mean his thing about waiting for the hardware to catch up with his "powerful software" is just the same old crap of trying to make things work better by making things more complicated.

    It reminds me of how NASA was always so proud of the fact that the Space Shuttle is "the most complicated machine ever built by mankind".

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    Seastead this.
  3. Some more failed "Killer Products" from MS by Dark+Coder · · Score: 0, Troll

    These are the products that Microsoft PR engine machine once called a "killer product" and believe me, these MSFT PR "DID" uses these two words literally.

    Xenix
    DOS 3.1 (kills competing DR-DOS and IBM-DOS)
    OS/2
    Windows 98 (it should have been 95.1)
    IE (all versions)
    Clippy
    IIS (reminds me of SpongeBob SquarePants, porous, isn't he?)
    FrontPage
    Barney ActiMates
    Windows Millinieum Edition (ME)
    JVM
    C## .NET
    Longhorn??

    Not to mention the biggest revenue making...

    OEM Licensing Restrictions

    Or their vaporwares...

    Spyware Killer (yes, this one is STILL ineffectual)
    iPOD
    UNIX-replacement to Xenix
    Google

    Looking back in retrospective... it seems rather bland and porous to me nowaday.

    "One World, One Web, One Program." -- Advertisement for Internet Exploder
    "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." -- Adolf Hitler

    44,513 publicized bugs since Windows 3.11. If this were an automobile manufacturer, they be sued out of existance.