The Death Of An OS

February 12th, 2009

Palm has pulled the plug on its Palm OS operating system.

Instead, the company will bet its future on its newly unveiled but still mysterious Palm webOS, built to power the new Pre smartphone, according to company CEO Ed Colligan, who spoke Wednesday at an investor conference in San Francisco.

The current Centro smartphone will be the last to use the Palm OS. “There will be no more Palm OS products,” Colligan said. “We will transition to webOS as our core OS, in addition to supporting Microsoft Windows products in the enterprise segment of the market.”

Oh great, more phones running Windows applications. Just what the world needs.

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One Response to “The Death Of An OS”

GoldCoaster:

February 12, 2009 at 4:16 am

Palm OS is really old now and they hadn’t really improved it for a long time. It actually feels old just like if you went back to MacOs9 or Windows95.
I am really excited about the webOS once I saw a video of it’s use on there upcoming phone. I think it is a real contender against the iPhone.

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