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Sendo & Microsoft it all ends in tears
« on: 25 December 2002, 19:20 »
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6905

Sendo & Microsoft ? it all ends in tears

By Tony Dennis: Tuesday 24 December 2002, 11:25

AS EXPECTED and as I predicted in November, handset manufacturer, Sendo, has taken the world's largest software house, Microsoft, to court in Texas, USA (23rd December).
The company's grievance is that after years of working closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows Smartphone 2002, the fruits of their endeavours were handed straight over to HTC, which manufactures the SPV handset for Orange.

HTC, like Via Technology and Nanya, is a subsidiary of the mighty Formosa Plastics combine.

Microsoft's own Web site hails the SPV as the first handset to run its Smartphone software even though technically speaking Sendo's own Z100 was launched before the SPV.

Sendo's immediate reaction was to stop work on the Z100 and announce that it would licence the rival, Symbian based, Series 60 platform from Nokia. At the original launch of the Z100, Ron Schaeffer, head of Sendo's product development team, had told the INQUIRER that as a small company, Sendo "didn't have the development dollars" to produce both a Symbian and a Windows Smartphone version of the Z100.

Now it appears the company has decided to go to court to recoup some of the money ? which one source claimed was at least $40 million ? spent working on Stinger (the code name for Smartphone). The court case ? which Sendo described as "having merit" - will almost certainly hinge on how much of Sendo's own IPR [Intellectual Property Rights] found their way into Windows Smartphone 2002.

One of the biggest ironies is that Microsoft itself invested in Sendo which was previously just a joint venture between a Birmingham, England based management team and Chinese cordless handset manufacturer, the CCT Telecom Group.

Microsoft took a stake in Sendo which was worth around $10 million, but which was less than 10% of the privately held firm.
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« Reply #1 on: 25 December 2002, 21:42 »
My Siemens M35i that I got for free, has embedded Windows XP... and it sucks ass... if you go into the main menu, internet is automaticly selected, and I exedantly go into the internet menu many times... the default key for "Go back" is replaced only in the "internet menu" as "make a connection". Imagine how anoying that must be?

Also, that shitty design and fucking piece of shit games, like minesweeper and reversi are no match to the games coming with Nokia's or Panasonic's.

And I think you can expect more "internet intergration" in your Microsoft phone when .NET arrives.

I wouldn't recommend a mobile with embedded Microsoft software, even if you got it for free.

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« Reply #2 on: 26 December 2002, 07:54 »
That phony phone from the Ericsson-M
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« Reply #3 on: 27 December 2002, 01:00 »
im shocked at the fact that sendo is surprised that M$ svrewed them. M$ has a less than shitty track record when dealing with other companies that deal in technology that M$ does not have. so M$ steals their proprietary software technology and Surprise Surprise, they release their own product with out sendo. further proof that ignorance IS NOT bliss.
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« Reply #4 on: 27 December 2002, 06:24 »
make a deal with the beast and get burned. satan was known as the king of lawyers.......
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