Interesting to hear what Microsoft are up to on the wireless front.

I notice that your company SNAZ operates out of the US as well as the UK and elsewhere. A lot is said about Europe's lead over the US in terms of wireless internet (based largely on our GSM standard advantage) but what is your view on how this will play out in the long term? Are the US really that far behind? What about Japan? Who do you think is going to lead the world?

On 14:37:54 20 October 2000 Alex wrote:
>Microsoft have got a lot of things wrong in their recent
>history of development - they missed the Internet
>bandwagon and created IE much much later than they should
>have done, MSN is a poor man's relation to the dominance
>that AOL have and Windows CE was a terrible competitor to
>the dominance of Palm - but the one thing that can be said
>for them is they have the financial muscle to make things
>happen when they want to, no matter how late they come to
>the game.
>
>Can the same therefore be said about their wireless
>strategy? Microsoft were/are very late to joining the
>wireless market, but are looking to release their own
>handsets next year and are now beginning to talk sensibly
>about what their vision is and what they can do.
>
>For all those wanting to see what the Microsoft
>money-rollercoaster looks like when it hits have a read of
>Paul Gross' speech transcript from the Chase H&Q
>Mobile Centricity Conference (
>http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/grosschaseHQoct2000.h-
>tm ).
>
>A fascinating insight into what they are planning... and
>like all Microsoft products there's a small bug in the
>title!
>
>Alex