__/ [ asjbiotek@xxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 16 April 2007 01:30 \__
> A funny look but interesting look at Windows Mobile's foibles and
> problems and the coming iPhone:
>
>
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/50755EA6-A759-42FD-84ED-EBB5A060AF16.html
>
> * I'll note that Java ME (MIDP) runs on many Windows mobile so i'm not
> TOTALLY against it....
>
> Some bon mots:
>
> -----------------------------
>
> After a decade of trying, WinCE has done little to push the state of
> the art, and nothing to enrich Microsoft. The company reports having
> lost over half a billion dollars from its Mobile and Embedded Devices
> segment over the last four years, which includes sales of both WinCE
> and Embedded Windows.
>
> -------------------------------
This was mentioned before.
The Secret Failures of Microsoft
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| Microsoft's decade of investments in WinCE and Windows Mobile
| Smartphones have only barely matched the market share of Palm, which
| itself is a run down company out of ideas. Microsoft couldn't
| out-maneuver the incompetent Palm within a decade of trying; now both
| are ineffectually fighting over the dying PDA industry while Linux and
| Symbian slaughter them in the smartphone arena:
|
| Symbian 75%; Linux 14%; Microsoft 5%; Palm 5%.
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/2E6D9BB2-FE1B-4556-8389-67BD581FBCCC.html
Also see:
Microsoft Hides Its Mobile and Business Apps Divisions
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| The company is folding its two worst-performing divisions -- Microsoft
| Business Solutions (its business applications unit) and its Mobile and
| Embedded units -- into the Microsoft Business Division and Microsoft Home
| and Entertainment units, respectively.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1990243,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
> (After a decade of trying) WinCE has only overtaken the competition
> where there hasn't been any competition. The market abandoned
> standalone PDAs when the real money turned out to be in mobile phones.
Just last week:
Dell stops selling Axim handheld
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| Dell has stopped selling its Axim line of handhelds and is not planning
| a new product in the category, the computer maker said Monday.
`----
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6174546.html
More stats:
70 percent of smartphones use Symbian
,----[ Quote ]
| At 3GSM it became clear that 70 percent of all smartphones use Symbian.
|
| Linux accounts for 16.9 percent of the smartphone market and only
| 4.6 percent uses Microsoft Windows Mobile.
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http://www.dvhardware.net/article17134.html
> WinCE isn't particularly well adapted for mobile phone use, because
> Microsoft designed it to suit the needs of a paperback-sized PC.
>
> The mobile phone market is now dominated by Symbian, with Linux in
> second place. WinCE only accounts for around 5% of smartphone mobile
> sales, which itself is a fraction of the overall mobile market.
For the record, many independent analysts say that Linux will inherit
Symbian's space. Nokia's Linux Foundation affliation membership (a fortnight
ago) and Maemo illutrate this even better than studies. Motorola is already
deep in Linux and is barely goes in any other direction.
Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010
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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/
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>
> Microsoft itself gave up on WinCE after trying to shoehorn it into the
> Sega Dreamcast and then again in its own Xbox game console. Further,
> when putting together Origami, its recent Ultra Mobile PC reference
> design--the task WinCE was expressly designed to deliver--Microsoft
> also ditched WinCE to use NT.
Don't forget Zune. They are all raking huge losses.
Origami:
Whatever Happened To The Origami?
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| Ultimately Origami is a classic example of how a viral buzz can
| work against a product release. Expectations were too high and the
| final product was puzzling and didn't fulfill any specific consumer
| demand. By the time the systems were actually released the hype had
| died down and there was practically zero consumer awareness. I've
| actually considered the possibility that the viral Origami campaign
| was a warm-up for the Zune campaign that followed later in the summer.
`----
http://www.medialoper.com/hot-topics/hardware/whatever-happened-to-the-origami/
Zune:
Intel chief sings iPhone's praises
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| Apple's iPhone is forcing a new wave of mobile device innovation
| and validates the superiority of Unix-like systems on mobile devices
| over Windows, claimed Intel chief executive Paul Otellini.
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http://www.mobile88.com/news/read.asp?file=/2007/3/6/20070306014323&sec=International
Microsoft says Zune executive will leave company
,----[ Quote ]
| Bryan Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft's entertainment
| and devices division, also played a key role in shaping the Xbox
| game console business and the introduction of its Internet
| Protocol television software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6155200.html
XBox:
Loot: Redmond, We Have a Problem, Or, What's Wrong With the Xbox 360
,----[ Quote ]
| At this point, Former becomes impassioned. That's not fair, he says;
| we always saw this as a long-term venture. To which we reply that we
| were talking about the original Xbox, and while other divisions of
| the company throw off more profits in a single quarter than the
| entire $5 billion or so lost in the home and entertainment division
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| to date, the fact remains that, as we take-our-word-for-it predicted,
| the Xbox group has been spectacularly unprofitable for Microsoft.
| Hence, our heretofore unpublished Vietnam analogy. The rest of the
| night is a blur, but we digress.
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http://ncroal.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=533168
> WinCE doesn't even make a particularly good PDA, and has only been
> able to keep up with the Palm OS because Palm has proven itself to be
> grossly incompetent. Just how incompetent?
To say more about the mobile Windows world:
Mobile Security Incidents on the Rise
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| Over two-thirds of mobile operators in Europe that took part in a survey
| said that they detected more than 100 incidents involving mobile
| viruses or mobile spyware in 2006, according to a study by conducted
| by Informa Ltd. for security software developer McAfee Inc.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070216/tc_pcworld/129115
Infected PCs spew malware over 3G connections
,----[ Quote ]
| Much has been written about malware capable of infecting mobile
| phones, but infected PCs spewing regular malware over 3G
| connections might be a more serious problem.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/15/3g_pc_malware/
Windows Mobile flaws could crash phones
,----[ Quote ]
| A security firm has found a pair of security bugs in Microsoft's
| Windows Mobile which, if exploited, could crash phones and other
| devices running the software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6155141.html
Trend Micro Finds More Windows Mobile Flaws
,----[ Quote ]
| Trend Micro has again discovered flaws related to Windows Mobile.
| Both of the newly found vulnerabilities are flaws in applications
| that ship by default with Microsoft?s mobile device OS.
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http://blog.trendmicro.com/trend-micro-finds-more-windows-mobile-flaws/
How to crash a Windows mobile using MMS
,----[ Quote ]
| Security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that exploits
| vulnerabilities in MMS implementations in mobile phones running
| mobile versions of Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/windows_mms_vuln/
Microsoft doesn't deny Windows Mobile flaw
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft has refused to deny that the most recent version of
| Windows Mobile leaves data poorly secured on handsets.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39284532,00.htm
Airscanner Vulnerability Summary: Windows Mobile Security Software Fails the
Test
,----[ Quote ]
| Since developers are not in a hurry to keep their users information
| secure... we feel compelled to publish - with exclusivity granted to us
| by author till August 21, 2006 - an article, that reveals various
| problems with Windows Mobile software from various software vendors!
| This article is a "must read" for any serious user of Windows Mobile...
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http://msmobiles.com/news.php/5474.html
Review of Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC (Crossbow) operating system
,----[ Quote ]
| Regrettably, this world lacks miracles and this case is just another
| proof of that. The system still doesn?t offer support for several
| active windows in Internet Explorer, so that you are limited to a
| single window at a time, also profiles are missing in WM; the office
| applications haven?t been enhanced either. Nor were the multimedia
| tools. What the company has really got to do is keep on tuning
| Office Mobile, extending Windows Live, release Windows Media Mobile
| 11 and so on.
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http://www.mobile-review.com/pda/articles/wm-crossbow-en.shtml
Mobile phone security to outpace that on PCs [because Windows isn't there]
,----[ Quote ]
| ...it predicts the biggest mobile security market sector will be in
| the secure mobile content sector (anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware
| and content filtering) with 40 per cent of the total market. The
| security threat doesn't just cover mobile viruses and malware but of
| identity theft, too.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36275
Smartphones get a firewall
,----[ Quote ]
| V3 will only run on the latest Windows Mobile 5 and Symbian 9.1
| systems though, the rationale being that as the market grows so
| fast, they will be the bulk of malware-targeted systems very soon.
|
| [...]
|
| The Windows release is out now and the Symbian one will follow early in
| 2007. The software costs $35 (£20), which includes a year's updates and
| service.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/14/trendmicro_mobile_sec/
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