This is a copy of an article in June 1997's issue of Netguide pg 43 by 
Matthew Friedman:
Industry News:
Technology Update: WinCE Blazes a Trail
   Microsoft Windows CE, the shrunken operating system for handheld PCs, is
poised to dominate the small-systems market.  But what of the established
handheld software developers already pumping out operating systems and
applications for mini PCs?
   One principal WinCE application, Microsoft's Pocket Internet Explorer 
PIE)
browser, is a direct threat to Spyglass Inc.  and its Device Mosaic product.
"It would be foolish to deny that we're in direct competition with PIE," says
Randy Littleson, Spyglass' vice president of marketing.
   However, Littleson isn't worried.  "There are some places where we'll
compete and they'll win, and there are some places where we'll compete and
we'll win," he says.  "On handheld PCs with Windows CE [and its 
pplications],
Microsoft will probably win."
   Spyglass' trump card is Prism, a proxy server that reinterprets Web 
ontent
for display on handhelds' small, monochrome screens.  "Prism can dynamically
convert content designed for a PC display to a CE device display," Littleson
says.
   On the other hand, Geoworks, whose Geos OS runs on Hewlett Packard Co. 
handheld PCs, is stepping out of Microsoft's way.  "We always knew that 
Microsoft would be the winner if it ever got into this market, and there was
no way to stop that," says Gordon Mayer, Geoworks' president.  "A handheld
computer is just a sub-subnotebook, and what you really want there is perfect
compatibility with your main computer.  Microsoft can deliver that better 
han
anyone."
   Mayer says the company is in the process of reinventing itself as a 
developer of software for communications devices.  In April, Geoworks 
icensed
Java technology from Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Javasoft division for use in its
next-generation Internet-savvy smart phone OS, thus consolidating its leading
market position.  "The companies that make smart phones, like Ericson and
Nokia, aren't beholden to Microsoft," Mayer says.  "In fact, we've found 
ourselves in a market where it's actually an advantage not being Microsoft."
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Great, they left the desktop because "PDA's where the hot thing", now they 
can't even win that battle because they no longer have a real Desktop system
to communicate with their PDA's, and now they're going to smart phones?
Who wants to bet there's be a Smart Phone 98 or somesuch, and that they'll
be making car stereo OS's next?
... "I forgive your blasphemy." -- Q
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