I kind of felt the same way when Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook
Express) was being dumped onto the market at no cost to the user. Outlook,
for those of you who don't know, is a full fledged, feature-rich PIM
application. This feature set directly competes with Lotus Organizer,
DayTimer, EccoPro, ACT!, Time&Chaos, ad nauseum.
Outlook is no longer being given away. Makes you wonder why they stopped.
MWF
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 1:48 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: OffTopic? - Microsoft Anti-Competitive Practices
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Steve Sabram wrote:
> Going away development tools is nothing new. Hell, there is one for the
Palm platform right now. Personally, I gave PocketPC a
> rundown when it came out and overall wasn't impressed. The one really big
turn off that I saw was a total lack of consistency of
> the hardware buttons. It is like having a different keyboard layout per
manufacturer. Also, there was no common machanical
> interface for whole modules to connect such as the Modem connector or
Springboard slots.
The difference is:
1) Microsoft never has given away development tools before.
2) Only by giving away their, previously charged for product, do they
hope to run the competition out of business.
3) If MicroSoft is so magnanomous, why don't they give their Win32
development system away for free? Because they already dominate that OS
market.
4) The GCC tools you refer to is a non-for profit organization, not hell
bent on putting competition out of business.
> Overall, I expect the PocketPC stuff to fizzle out by the end of the
summer and then a lot of new PalmOS licensed devices will be
> released as in the past.
Not going to happen, unless Palm comes out with a larger screen; better
sound, etc. The features of the HP 548 are hard to overlook. And now
you can write programs for FREE.
>
> Steve
>
> "Michael S. Davis" wrote:
>
> > One of the things that makes Palm so attractive is the vast number of
> > applications. Partly due to the low cost of developement s/w.
> >
> > Microsoft wants the PDA OS market.
> >
> > Microsoft has always charged big bucks for Development Systems.
> >
> > Microsoft has always charged big bucks for CE Toolkits.
> >
> > Now, in order to gain market share, Microsoft is doing with CE Dev that
> > it did with browsers. It's giving away their development systems for
> > Windows CE.
> >
> > Sounds like another lawsuit in the making.
> >
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