Windows didn't beat Palm in my purchasing decisions. Palm just lost it.
Microsoft hasn't done anything that caused me to move from Palm OS to WinMob. My Toshiba offers little special that an iPaq 3600 didn't offer 5 years ago when I was a happy Clie user.
What happened is that Palm OS 6/ Cobalt never arrived. As my PDA use evolved I wanted: multitasking, real fonts, real files, graphics standards. WinMob offers that because it always has. Palm promised that but never delivered it.
The bottom line here is that both POS and WinMob look to me like they are going to ultimately fail in the marketplace. My silly Toshiba has a beautiful screen but once its been off for 20 minutes I have to wait and wait and wait for it to "boot" just like a desktop does. No one is going to want to do that with a phone OS and phones are where all the hardware is going.
I give props to MS that WinMob is as quite stable, but it is still not as stable as Epoc was. My next PDA is more and more likely to be a Nokia of some sort.
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