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   With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 16th, 1999 @ 12:31pm

   
   

   it is a slam-dunk (as it were) for the Palm Computing group.
   
   Ok, ok. Really its about 2 things:
   1) Price
   2) Preformance
   
   The palm wins on price. And the palm preforms as you expect.
   WinCE preforms as one has come to anticipate Microsoft products to preform.
   
   But, Bill won't throw in the towel. He sees the embedded market as being a priority...so CE will still remain. For a LONG time.

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   Re: With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers

   

   Mike (profile), Nov 16th, 1999 @ 3:09pm

   
   

   Hey, I agree with you. Just for the record, I clearly said that Microsoft was losing against Palm devices. I never said
   that CE was going away, and I don't expect it to at all. But in that one market, it seems to me that they failed big
   time. They have been known to come back from things like that, though. However, having a number of OEMs stop
   making CE devices is not a good sign at all.

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   Re: With no Newton Inc and the Newton engineers

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 16th, 1999 @ 7:35pm

   
   

   At the point where for $300 you can get WinCE'd is when M$ has a chance to sell the devices.
   
   Because you can spend $300 and not have to ask the spouse.
   
   (this is right from Jeff Hawkins own playbook)

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