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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

• April 19, 2000: Microsoft launches the Pocket PC, the long awaited and much needed replacement to its Palm-sized PC predecessor.

It may have been "much needed" because MS did a poor job marketing the Palm-sized PC. But I found those devices perfectly fine and superior to the Palm Pilot. I owned 3 of them, including the original Cassiopeia E-10 and the color Cassiopeia E-105. The Pocket PC was a significant improvement, but the Palm-sized PC has long been unfairly maligned. It even had a better handwriting recognition tool than the PPC's because of its great learning ability.