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Microsoft will hold tomorrow invitation-only event for ARM Partner companies, Smartphone will be covered September 16, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. Topics covered at the summit will include [...] Smartphones Starting tomorrow, ARM and Microsoft will hold their second annual Executive Summit, a two-day event that will provide 80 attendees from 40 ARM Partner companies with the opportunity to participate in the development of innovative consumer devices and applications running on Windows CE .NET and powered by ARM microprocessors. The summit enables ARM silicon Partners to provide input into the technology and business road maps for Windows CE .NET and ARM microprocessors, which will result in greater innovation and choice of devices for customers and faster time to market for device manufacturers designing the next generation of "smart" devices. The relationship between Microsoft and ARM has delivered increased functionality and performance to silicon partners and device manufacturers of innovative consumer electronics since 1996. The summit is an invitation-only event that will share confidential technology road maps and marketing strategies. Topics covered at the summit will include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, "Media2Go," Windows Media, VoIP phones, network gateways, Internet Protocol set-top boxes (IP-STBs), Windows Automotive, Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. By the way, Microsoft also announced new partners among hardware vendors: Microsoft Corp. and ARM announced that eight new silicon vendors -- Centrality Communications, Cirrus Logic Inc., Conexant Systems Inc., Globespan Virata, LSI Logic Corp., MagicEyes Digital Co. Ltd., NVIDIA Corp. and Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas -- will develop ARM core-based solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows CE .NET 4.2. Let us donīt forget that Smartphone 2003 runs on Windows CE .NET 4.2 so with this new hardware manufacturers on board it will be easier to design and manufacture also new Microsoft smartphones... For more info click here.
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