Microsoft has taken their eyes off the ball before.
Microsoft left Internet Explorer to wither on the vine for some time once they felt secure enough. Firefox has knocked them back awake. It is good to see WinMob phone edition and Winmob Smartphone being rolled into one sollution. This will allow for handhelds to progress and let Microsoft keep supporting our PDAs as they support their phones.
If the next generation Sony video game systems (portable and desktop) ever reach the potential for real computing work and internetability Sony has claimed they would have Microsoft will do even more work on their WinMob/game divisions.
I personally see WinMob already far ahead of Symbian and POS in features so even if MS does coast for a while, they will still be ahead of the competition until 2008 when POS/Access releases a workable version II of Plinux. I suppose they could get the first version right in 2007, but I doubt that.
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