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[News] E-book Specialist Dumps Windows CE, Chooses Linux; Microsoft Begs Developers to Come

  • Subject: [News] E-book Specialist Dumps Windows CE, Chooses Linux; Microsoft Begs Developers to Come
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:44:02 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linux-based e-book boasts "brightest and fastest" e-paper

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| A France-based e-book specialist is readying a Linux-powered successor to its 
| earlier Windows CE-based e-book reader devices. Bookeen's third-generation 
| Cybook device, featuring "groundbreaking" Vizplex e-paper technology from E 
| Ink, is a customized version of a Chinese-language e-book reader that debuted 
| last December.    
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4810239944.html

As usual, Microsoft tries to /buy/ support.

Microsoft offers treats to Linux hackers

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| Microsoft held a similar event at last year's San Francisco LinuxWorld. 
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4935923195.html

They even tried "dumping" Windows CE 4 years ago (and failed miserably).


Related:

$3 Windows a threat to Linux?

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| Meanwhile, in the embedded market, Microsoft attempted to counter
| the low costs of using embedded Linux with a $3 Windows CE licensing
| program launched back in 2003. 
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6846555964.html


Linux gains support in mobile communications

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| 'Based on what we have been told by our contacts in the industry,
| Nokia's choice to further support Linux is representative of a
| shift to Linux as a whole', commented IMS Research Senior
| Analyst Alison Bogle.
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http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/isr/isr106.html

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