Windows CE and an OT rant

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
Date: Mon Aug 28 21:11:52 2000

You might remember the big press release that stated that the
term "Windows CE" would no longer be used, it was being
replaced by the term "Windows Powered" for handheld devices.
Now, I, myself, personally, enjoy the oxymoron that is created
when you enclose the words "Windows" and "Powered" in the
same set of parentheses, however, it still can't hide the fact that it's
slow and bloated, and PalmOS is kicking it's butt. Of course, we
seem to forget where it all came from, and that's my little pal the
Newton. Kick-butt device, poor market positioning. Still use my
MP100, will upgrade to a Newt2K when they come down a little
more on ebay.

<rant>

And on an OT note, in the name-change vein, what brain trust
decided that we should call AT&T Labs "Lucent Technologies" or
take the long-respected brand name of Hewlett-Packard
Instruments and start calling them "Agilent Technologies", a name
that I haven't heard pronounced the same way twice, or again
taking the universally-recognizable brand name of Ameritech
Cellular and renaming it to the mouth-deforming "Verizon
Wireless", a name which, until I finally saw it in print, I had no idea
how to spell much less look up on the web. Apparently they
anticipated that, since they registered every domain name based
on variations of "Verizon" and routed them all to the home page....

</rant>

Paul

> You're talking about Wind-Mill the replacement for Win98 that is supposed
> to be the last consumer only version before the grand gathering of NT
> "technology" and general public mass market distribution of DOS. Remember
> grasshopper, there can be only one. Or something like that Francois
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Date: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:08 AM
> Subject: OT: Re: Windows CE (was future classic)
>
>
> >> What the hell is Windows ME? Windows MistakE? FWIW Windows CE is
> >> now
> >> offically dead. I guess Billy Boy is going to try and pull another fast
> one
> >> on us and try to convince us that now we need to spend more money and
> >> buy his new and improved OS.
> >
>
>






Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam_at_laidbak.com
Received on Mon Aug 28 2000 - 21:11:52 BST