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Mobile working Toolkit

The future of netbooks

Rupert Goodwins ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 24 Nov 2008 16:36 GMT

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Windows Mobile
Come on. Why wouldn't you want to run Windows Mobile on a netbook? It's the only OS Microsoft has that runs on an ARM platform, after all, and it's out there pretending to be a desktop OS on smartphones already. The answer to this question is painfully obvious to anyone who has run Windows Mobile on a big screen, where it brings back all those memories of Windows 3.1 that you've so successfully repressed. It could be much more than that — with a lot of focussed effort, political will and smart moves from Microsoft — but the signs aren't good.

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