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Microsoft has been doing various flavors of mobile OS development since LONG before iOS or Android. The first release of Windows CE was back in 1996, roughly contemporary with PalmOS and Apple's NewtonOS.



Indeed, which makes their failure even more glaring, strengthening the argument that the mobile OS market is now an impenetrable duopoly.

Nokia and BlackBerry found that out as well.




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