When Microsoft wants to get into a market, the Redmond, Wash.-based company creeps up slowly and then stomps. It did it to Lotus and WordPerfect. It overcame Netscape. Currently it's taking on Palm, plus Sony and Nintendo, all at once. Now Microsoft is gunning for the burgeoning market for "smart handhelds," a catchall phrase that describes handheld computers that in various combinations can send and receive email, browse the Web and make wireless phone calls. Microsoft is aiming for a day when Windows runs on mobile phones as widely as it does the PC.
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