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Treo 700w: A marriage not made in heaven

Filed under: Mobile, Windows, Hardware — Moobys at 9:41 pm on Sunday, January 8, 2006

Alas, even after all that plastic surgery, you can’t escape the fact that you’re basically running Windows.

For instance, you open programs from a tiny Start menu, which you activate by pressing a dedicated Windows-logo key. Fine, except that the Start menu has room to list only seven programs. For access to anything else, you must open the Programs folder. But even here, only nine icons fit on each screen, and no list view is available. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.

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Goodbye Windows 2000

Filed under: Windows — Moobys at 4:29 pm on Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Windows 2000 Professional mainstream support ends on June 30, 2005, but it is still the standard desktop OS at Sprint. This comes two years after general availability of Windows XP Professional. Maybe they should just start planning for the Longhorn release and skip XP.