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From Wikipedia:

"In March 2004, during a consumer class-action lawsuit in Minnesota, internal documents subpoenaed from Microsoft revealed that the company had violated nondisclosure agreements seven years earlier in obtaining business plans from Go Corporation, using them to develop and announce a competing product named PenWindows, and convincing Intel to reduce its investment in Go. After Go was purchased by AT&T and Go's tablet-based computing efforts were shelved, PenWindows development was dropped.[21]"


Even if this comes out, I see it as being a flop. It's too far fetched from the traditional computer, only the upper echelon of computer users will take the learning curve to use it.


Why's dead. Ruby lives on.


Bing Is Not Google B.I.N.G.

Anyone else notice that? Microsoft is using the GNU style recursive acronym. Irony at its finest.


The question is now, how to sell open source?


Haha, I never thought of it that way, but now I see Microsoft just made a huge fool of themselves.


Nah, this guy does not know what he's talking about. An iPhone is a phone. The OS was built for the hardware, it was designed to communicate.

The NetBook is for the web. I can also install any OS, as it is a PC, not a phone with a built in OS.


FORGET cards and flowers, I'm BUILDING a gift. Right now.


Of course!


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