Pocket PC : Microsoft armada in competition with Palm (Boursorama)

The offensive against the giant Microsoft in the sector of PDAs (Personal Assistants), in a domain still largely held by Palm, is becoming more obvious. Compaq, Casio, Toshiba Corp. and other brands have presented yesterday, Thursday October 4th, a whole range of new engines created with the new Microsoft operating system, Pocket PC 2002. Hewlett-Packard had also announced the launching of new items last month. In Boursorama, the article " An armada of pocket computers with the new Microsoft standard » ". makes a review. In addition to that, the article focused on what Compaq revealed : «Several other tools allowing to provide new functions on the machines, as a case –available in December- transform the machine in a tri-band GSM mobile phone and in terminal for the mobile Internet. »