Thursday, May 2, 2002
Them's fight'n words
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 11:01 AM
http://www.itmatters.com.ph/news/news_05022002j.html
Business is business and Microsoft is unquestionably very good at it - sometimes too good for their own good according to the justice department. ;-) They are going after the cell phone market in a huge way - Smartphones and Pocket PC phones. Right now, Symbian is in their crosshairs.
"Recently, Microsoft's Juha Christensen invited the 20 biggest software developers allied to archrival Symbian to breakfast to try to win them over, much to the chagrin of Symbian executives when they found out. It is the latest stab below the belt in a battle that is developing nasty edges as the two companies fight to become the dominant software provider for hundreds of millions of future mobile phones and organizers that will be able to play games, music and video clips and receive multimedia messages."
Mr. Christensen is relatively new at Microsoft. He was hired in 2001, and was a Symbian VP at the time. :-) "David Levin, Symbian's new chief executive, ... 'called to arms' 1,500 software engineers to write programs for mobile devices that will link consumers and businesses." 1,500 developers? Isn't that a few zero's shy of what Microsoft has?
Let the war begin! The more they fight it out, the better the devices we'll get. Well, that assumes the North American cell phone system gets its act together, but that is another rant. :-(
Business is business and Microsoft is unquestionably very good at it - sometimes too good for their own good according to the justice department. ;-) They are going after the cell phone market in a huge way - Smartphones and Pocket PC phones. Right now, Symbian is in their crosshairs.
"Recently, Microsoft's Juha Christensen invited the 20 biggest software developers allied to archrival Symbian to breakfast to try to win them over, much to the chagrin of Symbian executives when they found out. It is the latest stab below the belt in a battle that is developing nasty edges as the two companies fight to become the dominant software provider for hundreds of millions of future mobile phones and organizers that will be able to play games, music and video clips and receive multimedia messages."
Mr. Christensen is relatively new at Microsoft. He was hired in 2001, and was a Symbian VP at the time. :-) "David Levin, Symbian's new chief executive, ... 'called to arms' 1,500 software engineers to write programs for mobile devices that will link consumers and businesses." 1,500 developers? Isn't that a few zero's shy of what Microsoft has?
Let the war begin! The more they fight it out, the better the devices we'll get. Well, that assumes the North American cell phone system gets its act together, but that is another rant. :-(
