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Thursday, August 30, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2809171,00.html How MS is planning to conquer the wireless industry, too David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk Sitting in a Seattle conference room last week, I had the feeling I was watching history repeating itself, or at least Microsoft trying to make it repeat itself. I was--along with about 100 other editors and analysts--attending a Microsoft-sponsored show-and-tell for the company's mobile computing technology. Today I want to discuss Microsoft's "mobility" strategy from about a 50,000-foot level. In future columns I will delve into the specifics, but today I'd like to set the scene for Microsoft's attempt to control the wireless/mobile industry as thoroughly as it controls desktop computing and applications. In fact, Microsoft hopes to turn wireless and mobile computing into mere extensions of its desktop and server platforms....
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