Friday, April 19, 2002
Pocket PC's critical next step
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 11:32 PM
http://www.brighthand.com/newsite/ppc/views/nextstep.html
Brighthand weighs in on the Pocket PC and what's it's done in the past two years. Somehow it felt more impressive being in the thick of it... :-)
"Today marks the second anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's handheld computing platform, Pocket PC. But in truth it's been at the handheld game a lot longer than that. Microsoft's handheld computing days stretch way back to the early 1990's, when it began work on a couple of internal projects, codenamed Pulsar and WinPad (see Timeline below). Although it was more focused on creating an embedded operating system for set-tops boxes at the time, there was a small group of Microsoft engineers with their eye on handheld computers. The embedded OS they eventually came up with, Windows CE, is still with us, and although it's had its share of up and downs it remains the heart of Pocket PC."
Brighthand weighs in on the Pocket PC and what's it's done in the past two years. Somehow it felt more impressive being in the thick of it... :-)
"Today marks the second anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's handheld computing platform, Pocket PC. But in truth it's been at the handheld game a lot longer than that. Microsoft's handheld computing days stretch way back to the early 1990's, when it began work on a couple of internal projects, codenamed Pulsar and WinPad (see Timeline below). Although it was more focused on creating an embedded operating system for set-tops boxes at the time, there was a small group of Microsoft engineers with their eye on handheld computers. The embedded OS they eventually came up with, Windows CE, is still with us, and although it's had its share of up and downs it remains the heart of Pocket PC."
