Score one for Microsoft — at Symbian’s expense. After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion’s BlackBerry as the most prolific device on the market. Windows Mobile phones will help census takers collect information door-to-door during the 2010 U.S. census. The phones offer them the ability to connect to the Internet, read e-mail, listen to music and even run Office.
The key thing to consider in this story is the inaccuracies msft spins by means of their marketing engine to pull the wool over customers eyes. #1- RIM never bid on this deal since it does not involve a persistent network connection. So, don't know how they won anything. How can you beat someone not in the game? #2- This is for a handheld app that stores data locally on the device and is NOT syncronus client server app. It's an asyncronus based app that dumps the data at the end of the day from an generally disconnected device. They need to update their "get the facts" site, which is often misleading about Linux as well.
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Microsoft Windows Mobile Lands US Census Deal
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire April 6, 2006 09:59 AMScore one for Microsoft — at Symbian’s expense. After getting out of the gate slowly, Microsoft won its largest-ever contract for mobile phone software from the U.S. Census Bureau. The contract covers 500,000 handsets and could lead the software giant to dethrone Research In Motion’s BlackBerry as the most prolific device on the market. Windows Mobile phones will help census takers collect information door-to-door during the 2010 U.S. census. The phones offer them the ability to connect to the Internet, read e-mail, listen to music and even run Office.
#1- RIM never bid on this deal since it does not involve a persistent network connection. So, don't know how they won anything. How can you beat someone not in the game?
#2- This is for a handheld app that stores data locally on the device and is NOT syncronus client server app. It's an asyncronus based app that dumps the data at the end of the day from an generally disconnected device.
They need to update their "get the facts" site, which is often misleading about Linux as well.