Mr Gates believed this could weaken the applications barrier to entry by usurping Windows as the main platform for software developers.

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Their Windows software was flawed, annoying, frustrating and an oftentimes faulty platform for which to write software.

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Net platform, which aims to fulfill a "software as a service" vision: namely, Windows-based cards powering mobile phones -- not considered a good fit for Windows CE -- and Pocket PCs that are connected to Exchange servers.

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