SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer hosted a coming-out party here Thursday for a new version of the Pocket PC operating system, joined by handheld makers and, yes, developers, ...

The old saw about Microsoft has always been that its products are all pretty good--in their second or third releases. The company's approach to a PDA operating system is a good example. Its earliest ...

Nine PDA (personal digital assistant) brands are expected to launch products running on Microsoft’s next-generation PDA OS, Pocket PC 2002, in the first half of next year. The Palm OS’s dominance does ...

SAN JOSE–With the completion of the merger between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp., the combined HP held off Dell Computer Inc. for the No. 1 position in worldwide PC shipments for 2002, ...

To coincide with today’s launch of Microsoft Corp.’s Pocket PC 2002 operating system, handheld vendors plan to unveil devices running the software. Compaq Computer Corp., Symbol Technologies Inc., ...

While the ongoing battle between Dell and Hewlett-Packard for supremacy in the PC category was too close to call in 2002, the industry managed to eke out a small unit shipment increase, according to ...