Conflicting Opinions on Windows Mobile: Open Source or Open FUD?

Oct 01, 2008, 21:05 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Asay)

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"It sounds like Windows Mobile should be free, and not because of any strategy to counter open-source Symbian (Nokia) or open-source Linux (Google). No, Microsoft should be giving it away because its Windows Mobile operating system is potty, despite a decade of effort to improve it. Microsoft has tried to replicate the desktop Windows experience on the handheld."

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