Despite its prediction that users would be able to buy WinPad-based hand-held computers this year, Microsoft Corp is now acknowledging it’s having trouble delivering the operating system to its OEM customers, PC Week reports: We are expecting systems in the first half of next year, said David Briton, Microsoft group product manager for hand-held systems, but the company has yet to complete the WinPad code, which was originally expected to ship by the middle of this year; some of the delay can be traced to delays in Chicago, because WinPad now dubbed Microsoft At Work for Handhelds – will derive its plug-and-play support and data synchronisation technologies from Chicago, and will include a version of the personal information manager planned for Chicago, as well as using some features being developed for Chicago user interface, such as replacing standard dialogue boxes with Chicago’s tabbed dialogue boxes; the company is also said to have had trouble with pen recognition and squeezing Windows down.
