The firm's well-off consumers are becoming ever more interested in buying other (digital) electronic gizmos, such as personal computers and cellulartelephones.
Microsoft has countered by importing Windows CE, a stripped-down version of Windows that can run anything from cellulartelephones to videogame consoles, to palm-size computers.
Several days ago the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would undertake a re-examination of the standards limiting how much radiofrequency (RF) energy can be emitted by cellulartelephones.