08 Dec 1999
Microsoft is ditching the Windows CE name after its hand-held computer operating system was soundly beaten in the market by 3Com's PalmPilot.
Analysts Frost & Sullivan show that the latest sales figures for Windows CE OS had just under 30 per cent market share in the European hand-held PDA market, this compares to 23 per cent in the last financial year.
The increase was not considered enough to make a significant impact upon the PDA market, leaving Windows CE in third place behind the PalmPilot and the Psion/Symbian alliance.
Microsoft said that customers did not care what the OS was called but that it would brand its mobile and embedded devices as 'Windows powered'.
But, Gartner analyst Pete Day said the operating system's problems remained.
"It lacks the features of the full-blown operating system," he said.
Frost & Sullivan analyst Rachel Rowe said that hardware based on Windows CE had also floundered, with no vendor winning more than six per cent of the PDA market.
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