--Steve Ballmer, 2001
GNU/Linux leads to the cheapening of Windows Mobile, just like in sub-notebooks. In simple terms, GNU/Linux is a competition so strong to Windows that Microsoft is left without choice but to reduce its prices. The following report, which is based on another from The Digital Times€® (subscription required), states in its headline that "Microsoft Will Make Windows Mobile Cheaper To Compete With Open Source."
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will adopt a two-pronged approach to the mobile operating system market that will be able to compete against both the iPhone and Android, according to a report in DigiTimes that claims to know Microsoft’s Windows Mobile roadmap.
Microsoft's curious lack of ambition in mobile
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Microsoft is fond of talking about just how much it spends on research and development. But it's time to stop talking and start shipping. I've heard rumors of an exceptional mobile product on the way from Microsoft, but that's all I ever hear: something "in the cooker" that will "rock the world soon!"
As Morrissey used to croon for The Smiths, "How soon is now?"
So far Samsung has been pretty platform agnostic, merrily churning out phones for any open mobile OS available, with unifying TouchWiz interface on top. But now it seems that Samsung has started working on their own Linux based mobile OS. According to Mobile Review:
(Samsung is) now working on a vertical Linux-based solution of their own, using their proprietary TouchWiz interface to tie up various platforms and prepare themselves for the upcoming Linux-powered devices… Samsung might be a little late (with their mobile Linux OS effort), but through various marketing tricks is covering it up. For now Samsung is spreading it’s widgets to phones and netbooks, but it is too early to call it fully vertically integrated solution.
Linux x86 vitality bodes well for Moblin project
The Intel backed linux OS reaches beta stage so we decided to give it a test drive
--Steve Ballmer, 2001
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aeshna23
2009-08-22 11:53:42
Yuhong Bao
2009-08-22 22:40:12
Yuhong Bao
2009-08-22 23:24:08
Roy Schestowitz
2009-08-23 00:18:51
Roy Schestowitz
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