When Microsoft and Palm, Inc., along with Verizon Wireless, announced a strategic alliance last week, the two former software rivals unveiled more than a new line of Treo Smartphones for mobile professionals and businesses.
Based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the first of the new devices – the Windows Mobile based Palm Treo – will be available in the U.S. on the Verizon Wireless national wireless broadband network and marks the first time handheld-computer pioneer Palm will sell a device based on Microsoft software. To learn more about what this historic alliance means to customers, developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), PressPass spoke with Pieter Knook, senior vice president for Microsoft’s Mobile & Embedded Devices Division.
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