PC Magazine: Winners and duds of 1999 | Linux Today

PC Magazine: Winners and duds of 1999

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 31, 1999

The Top Five Biggest Events of the Past 1,000 Years (or
maybe just 1999)


4. Linux. Lots of talk. Lots of hype.
Lots of hope

The Top Five Flops of the Past 1,000 Years (or maybe
just 1999)


4. Microsoft Windows CE hand-held
computers.
When will Microsoft and its friends learn
that building a lot of little computers around a portable OS that
results in incompatibility from machine to machine for various
reasons is not the road to success?
…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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