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by Stierlitz 2110 days ago
@sumtechguy: “Former WincCE 2.x/3.x dev here. I had to work in this platform for a few years due the hardware my company wanted to ship. MS really could have owned that market”

WincCE, WinCE, you cannot be serious. WinCE was produced as a response to the ‘Palm Pilot’. WinCE ran on a “Palm PC”, not to be confused with the “Palm Pilot”. Palm sued and Microsoft renamed it to "Palm-sized PC" or the ‘Palm PC’. MS really could have owned the market with the TRON real-time operating. Microsoft did joint the TRON consortium and then lobbied to have it excluded from the North American market.

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-settles-palm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/microsoftjoinst-engineforum....

1 comments

fair enough...