[WyattEarp]

So MS won't dominate that sector of the market. Big deal, neither will Palm. As long as MS is willing to compete with the other players out there the end-user and software developer wins. Everyone will get something they wanted sooner of later.

MS keeping a tight hold on the WM OS is good. It keeps everyone on the same page. Being a former Palm user I never understood why Palm alllowed for example Sony to manipulate the OS so much that most third party memory programs never worked on their Clie. Even with CF slot wasn't using standard drivers on later editions. MS may not have all the answers and probably nobody does but MS is a whole lot better than Palm.