> Smartcards were never MS's target market https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_to_slash_smart_card_prices_with_new_os https://techmonitor.ai/technology

> Smartcards were never MS's target market https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_to_slash_smart_card_prices_with_new_os https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_to_slash_smart_c...: “Microsoft Corp has plunged into the smart card market with an operating systems that will compete with existing systems such as MultOS and Java Card […] Microsoft’s Smart Cards for Windows is an 8-bit operating system with 8K of ROM” That was October 1998. About a year later, there was https://news.microsoft.com/1999/11/15/microsoft-delivers-windows-for-smart-cards/ https://news.microsoft.com/1999/11/15/microsoft-delivers-win... I don’t think that went far, but they certainly tried.