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Microsoft Calling. Anyone There?
- hga 16y agoWhile this is an important and useful viewpoint, there's some basic journalism failure here: "But Microsoft stumbled as it took longer than expected to create a new product with the [Danger] technology." Given that as far as we can tell Danger was bought for i's IP portfolio first and warm bodies a distant second, and Pink/Kin used no Danger technology (unless the author's use of technology is so loose as to include technique/architecture), to the point one of the "official" causes of failure is a claimed 18 month schedule slip due to abandoning Danger's NetBSD based OS for Windows CE, the author would have done a lot better by either not opining on something they knew nothing about or spending the half-hour on the net required to get a basic background and learn the conventional wisdom.