An example of Microsofts Confidence in Smartphone =(

[Guest glynton]

Q: Will Microsoft integrate some synchronicity with mobile devices into their operating system that will work with the Pocket PC or maybe be open platform to Palm devices?  

Livingston: Microsoft has been trying to sell software called Microsoft Smart Phone for a couple of years. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the big telephone manufacturers like Nokia and Motorola have chosen an operating system called Symbian, which is based in the UK and is just now starting to show up as the operating system that is being used in high-end phones. Eventually it will be in the cheaper phones that you will get automatically when you sign up for a new cell phone account.  

I think Microsoft will not be as successful with cell phones as it has been with PCs. This is a big opportunity for smaller software companies because if you have phones with the Symbian software system, you can program in Java and a wide variety of platform-independent languages so that it wouldn’t just run on Windows. It would run on anything.

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Glyn

[Guest glynton]

oops, thought this guy 'Livingstone' was a MS spokesperson! My mistake..

Glyn

[Guest midnight]

hedhe, i was gonna say hehe

also, maybe they should get their facts right, microsoft have been trying to sell smartphones for a couple of years?????? really???? how interesting hehe

[Guest Coolboy1982]

hedhe, i was gonna say hehe

also, maybe they should get their facts right, microsoft have been trying to sell smartphones for a couple of years?????? really???? how interesting hehe

If you read carefully, you see that they have been trying to sell software

for smartphone for years, not the actual devices...

[Guest midnight]

my bad, still, i think microsoft do see the mobile market as important, and they will succeed.