[AnotherUnixGeek]

mainly because it's working from an outdated model of being the Great Copier.

Funny, I remember handheld devices running MS operating systems back when Steve Jobs was still running NeXT.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Window CE was a very stable and functional operating system. While my new phone does all of what my handheld PDA did and much more, my Jornada 680 was a very valuable and reliable tool.

It had a 9 hour battery life and an extra battery the size of a magic marker gave you another 9 hours back up. The flash memory operating system was fast, booted instantly. Contained the standard Office programs, had a built in fax machine and could browse the internet.

What it had that I wish my phone had was a stylus for typing. It is much preferred to my fat fingers on an onscreen keyboard, and so was the 70% sized keyboard that came with the Jornada.

Best of all, its screen was big enough to read and you could still slip it in your inside coat pocket.

[tallyhoe]

You know what else? Microsoft made xerox operating system work for the Apple Computer systems! Then they made it work for other computer systems!

[trekdown]

>Funny, I remember handheld devices running MS operating systems back when Steve Jobs was still running NeXT.

Are you really compare "handheld devices running MS operating systems" and NeXT?

If so it looks like you have forgotten something, because NeXT was an iconic brand. After all, a NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN to develop the world's first web server software, CERN HTTPd, and also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb. This workstation became the world's first web server on the Internet.

[MrEdd]

Shh. You’ll upset the cultists.