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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: 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.