Bill Gates has said that he thinks everyone would be using Windows Mobile right now and not Android if it weren't for his distractions and the antitrust investigation that his company got caught into.
"There's no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile," Gates claimed during his speech at The New York Times' DealBook Conference.
[...] Microsoft cofounder also revealed that the company was almost launching Windows Mobile on a Motorola handset but missed out on it by a few months, giving Android an unbeatable advantage. While there were a lot of factors, Gates says it's this 3-months delay that led to Android's supremacy and the downfall of any mobile efforts by Microsoft.
"We were just three months too late on a release Motorola would have used on a phone, so yes it's a winner takes all game."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Saturday November 09 2019, @10:29AM (9 children)
Wow, what loser things to say. Crying that Android is a better walled garden than WinCE and Windows Mobile, and trying to blame that on the government. You sound like a delusional Trump supporter.
But Bill, MS still isn't listening to the users. Many of us don't want the walls. You're still trying to bully us into accepting your view that walls are good. We find particularly irksome and insulting the patronizing attitude that you know better than us what's best for us, while you do things that are obviously against our interests.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:07PM (1 child)
Russian "collusion" DELUSION anyone? Scumbag TRAITORS (like you) are the delusional welfare sucking swine you are. What happened to you LOSERS on "russia, russia, russia" loser? You did what your kind ALWAYS DOES - lie and lose (because you are brain-dead welfare sucking SWINE)! What is it like knowing the entire planet laughs at your kind? You wasted millions in taxpayer money on that bullshit just like you waste our hard-earned money supporting your useless wasted life, welfare sucker loser you know you are.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:20PM
Hohohohoho truer words were never spoken! Welfare losers like the one you replied to want everything for 'FREE' impractical and impossible as it is and for what? Being lifelong losers who live in ghetto hovels miserably since they know they are complete wastes of life? Did the loser cure AIDS? No instead HIS KIND spreads it and slings drugs instead since they wasted their youth as wannabe 'gangstas' and 'crappas' (rappa on youtube) filth. I don't even need to state the obvious here but I do anyway to drive this set of facts home embarassing "bziptidoo" the fake name FAKE NEWS believing DELUSIONAL imbecile (uneducated wannabe delusional loser).
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @12:50PM (1 child)
Welfare sucker fakename, answer the question https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=34553&page=1&cid=918215#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] instead of trying to hide it using multiple registered accounts. What's the matter? Your delusions won't allow you to tell us what happened in "russian collusion" welfare sucker? Go back to your welfare ghetto hovel and overdose on the heroin only a fool like you craves since you know you are truly a waste of life welfare sucker hahahahaha!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @01:07PM
Once again you demonstrate how simple it is to get the DELUSIONAL welfare suckers to STFU when you confront them with facts. Especially facts about their fakename waste of life loser selves, hahahaha!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @01:18PM
Russian "collusion" DELUSION anyone? Scumbag TRAITORS (like you) are the delusional welfare sucking swine you are. What happened to you LOSERS on "russia, russia, russia" loser? You did what your kind ALWAYS DOES - lie and lose (because you are brain-dead welfare sucking SWINE)! What is it like knowing the entire planet laughs at your kind? You wasted millions in taxpayer money on that bullshit just like you waste our hard-earned money supporting your useless wasted life, welfare sucker loser you know you are. I see you had to try "HIDE" my shutting your junkie waste of life mouth earlier too https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=34553&page=1&cid=918215#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] hohohohoho instead of answering my simple question. You are a delusional waste of life loser, fakename for your fake wasted so-called 'life'. Do us all a favor: Go get some of your Chinese pals' FENTANYL and overdose on it so we don't have to listen to your crap OR see you run like the cowardly failure you evidence yourself to be, ghetto fail loser you prove you are.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @01:24PM
bzipitidoo fakename needs more welfare and heroin https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=34553&page=1&cid=918224#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] apparently. He can't even answer a simple question backed by facts his kind are nothing more than disgusting waste of life leeches sucking on welfare and heroin.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 09 2019, @03:00PM
How can you have your Windows, if you don't eat the Wall? All in all, you're just another prick with no wall!
(I think that's how the lyrics go, let's check with Bill.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @04:52PM (1 child)
Doesn't run native Windows apps. Doesn't run exe's downloaded from the net. Doesn't have an app store. Can't wipe the drive for Linux because it's embedded in ROM.
It's secure from most viruses but other than that another piece of shit from M$.
I still have my Jornada 820 WinCE but can't even browse the net anymore because of a locked in IE 4 without java or flash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @05:01AM
I still have a Casio Cassiopeia A11 with all the optional extras (powered dock, cardbus 14.4 modem, network card etc). It runs WinCE 2.0. Doesn't get a used much these days (ie. never). I don't even know if there are still ISP's out there that will let you connect through a dial-up modem.