I hate to say this even though I am a Palm user, but is the recent announcement on Monday about a Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 700, is the nail in the coffin for Palm? According to this ZDNet article, Michael Singer believes so. In short, the acquisition of PalmSource (the OS) by Japanese software maker Access, the lack of integration for business applications on the Palm system, Palm's proprietary operating system Palm OS, the dwindling market share of Palm (which Microsoft surpassed last year), and now the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft and Palm, seems to indicate the glory days and dominance of Palm is over.
It will be interesting to note how Palm OS 6 will play out, since Palm did buy out BeOS and is supposed to use the multimedia features of BeOS on Palm OS, which they didn't do in Palm OS 5.
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