[Gerard]

While I did not (and still don't) understand the details, it was well known 'back in the day' that BSquare were responsible for crippling performance of 133MHz and 150MHz MIPS processors used in the Casio line of PPCs. This was in large part responsible for the death of Casio's otherwise stellar MIPS-based devices.

In 2001 I paid BSquare $50 for a VoIP application, called 'BInTouch' if memory serves. It never worked. They supplied a second license 'free' at the point of sale, which I gave to a friend living quite far away so that we could use it for conversations rather than the telephone or email. We tried, and tried... and tried some more. Nope, never worked. Once he heard me, for about a second, as a sort of blip which might have been part of a word, maybe. I never heard anything. Lots of error messages though. I contacted BSquare Support, told them I had previously purchased their BSquare Utilities Pack (another $50 - all wasted, as EVERY SINGLE APPLICATION WAS BROKEN IN CRITICAL WAYS... I learned more about software testing and bugs from that suite than any other developer has taught me, though got not a bit of feedback from BSquare about my reports), and now this, and would kind of like either some support or a refund. They told me that it was unfortunate, how their VoIP program did not work over dialup (I didn't get high speed access for another 3 years) and that unfortunately they would not be able to make a refund... as I should have read about this limitation in the support files. Which, were, um, only available after purchasing the program! Brilliant support and customer service. NOT.

So now BSquare is being given responsibility for something to do with WM distribution, and perhaps architecture? Awesomely stupid. Thanks, Microsoft. As I recall wondering all those years ago and now wonder again, does someone at BSquare have someone at Microsoft over a barrel? Some naughty pictures perhaps? I don't understand what else would explain such incompetence being part of the equation at all.