>>Ken, won't this be a non issue when the OS of the handheld catches up?
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>I don't know of any plans to merge them. Windows and Windows Mobile are independent now and will probably stay that way for a long while. I think what may change over the next year or so is more and more very smaller devices that run Windows (like avery small Tablet PC, a large PDA device).
It is my understanding that a Tablet PC runs an
extended version of Windows XP, rather than a thinner version, and that a Tablet PC is more similar to a laptop than to a PDA device, and that it is also more expensive than a laptop. It is my impression that it will take at least three more years before affordable (cellphone sized) PDAs are powerful enough to run a 'full' OS like XP. I think you're right that Windows Mobile will remain the OS for PDAs, the next three years at least.
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