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Palm Teams With Microsoft for Smart Phone

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

UltimaGuy writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that Palm Inc. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to launch a Windows-based version of the Treo smart phone, marking the first time the handheld computer pioneer will sell a device based on its former rival's software. 'In terms of the level of importance, this would be - in this space - the same thing as Apple announcing they were going to be using Intel processors.'"

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  1. Visual Studio.NET by rd4tech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've heard over and over from people who've done some programming in this area that, although alternatives to VS exist they are either with far less features or buggy.
    Mod me troll but I believe that VS IDE is probably the best development environment around, and it might me possibly one of the reasons why many programmers are still coding for windows.