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Excerpt: Palm, maker of the Treo phone-slash-personal digital assistant, and Microsoft, maker of nearly everything else, are teaming up. Thanks to the deal, the Treo smart phone will no longer run on the Palm operating system. Instead the hardware will interface you with your unmanageable, hectic lives using Microsoft's mobile operating system.
Strange news indeed, because the Palm OS once ruled supreme over the empire of handheld devices.
How did this amazing switch come about? And more importantly, why do I no longer care?
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I'd like some feedback on this piece, please. Do you think there is room for a piece of this nature on public radio stations? It is presented here with the permission of CNET's TechRepublic.com, for which I create a weekly tech news, features and commentary podcast. It is available for broadcast through PRX. Note: The audio stream sounds strange - not sure why for this file. But I'm working on the issue. Excerpt: Palm, maker of the Treo phone-slash-personal digital assistant, and Microsoft, maker of nearly everything else, are teaming up. Thanks to the deal, the Treo smart phone will no longer run on the Palm operating system. Instead the hardware will interface you with your unmanageable, hectic lives using Microsoft's mobile operating system. Strange news indeed, because the Palm OS once ruled supreme over the empire of handheld devices. How did this amazing switch come about? And more importantly, why do I no longer care?
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CNET's TechRepublic.com/Podcast released 10/5/05
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Palm goes Windows Mobile, & Why I don't care
by Michael Jackman
TechProGuild Podcast, Oct 3, 2005--Palm, maker of the Treo phone-slash-personal digital assistant, and Microsoft, maker of nearly everything else, are teaming up. Thanks to the deal, the Treo smart phone will no longer run on the Palm operating system. Instead the hardware will interface you with your unmanageable, hectic lives using Microsoft's mobile operating system.
Strange news indeed, because the Palm OS once ruled supreme over the empire of handheld devices.
How did this amazing switch come about? And more importantly, why do I no longer care?
Let's start with this strange news. Because, like most of the mostly male fans of Palm's expensive and skittish thoroughbreds, I too was once a high-tech cowboy just a-longin' to own the latest breed.
And I too used to panic when my trusty Palm died like an...
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