Besides providing the operating system platform, we realized there are some devices (where) we need to provide more complete solutions. For example, like Pocket PC, if we just provide Windows CE it is not enough.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

Developers building embedded devices now have an open, reliable platform from which they can create innovative new solutions and bring them to market faster than ever, ... These solutions based on Windows NT Embedded 4.0 will enable customers to streamline and automate processes through the use of a wide range of new intelligent devices.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

It's something any operating system vendor has to have.