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Rivals Cry Foul over Microsoft Push into Global Cell Phone Market.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004
By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 25--Microsoft has been making a serious push to get its software into mobile devices since 2000, when its Pocket PC software for handheld computers first arrived to challenge industry leader Palm. Those handheld computers were the butt of jokes at first, but eventually they caught on -- at last count, handheld computers running Microsoft's operating system had about a third of the worldwide market, with Palm holding onto about half.
Now Microsoft is using that experience, and some of the software code, to push into the global cell phone market. And that has some competitors crying foul.
In January 2003, phone industry competitors complained to the...
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