Microsoft Corp has decided that its WinPad Personal Digital Assistant operating system just isn’t right – and it will take until 1996 to get it into a marketable state, US PC Week reports: when they do arrive, Win Pad devices will have integrated wireless capabilities: one reason for the rethink is said to be that the thing currently needs an 80486-based processor and at least 2Mb of memory to operate at all – and then runs hopelessly slowly, and it would be kind of hard to make that kind of configuration to sell for the $500 maximum observers reckon the market will bear; some resource problems, sources told the paper, arose from the use of a run-time version of Visual Basic, without optimisation, as WinPad’s application development environment.
