I thought I'd never see the day that someone on The Inquirer would claim that Microsoft has an advantage over Linux. And it's not even true, unless Inquirer reporters have been lying for a really long time. There's plenty of programs that will run on Linux and only sip power, they're just not advertised. Start porting games to Linux, or standardize the Windows API(hope I said that right, I know that the problem is Windows people writing non-standard code but I'm still not confident with the lingo) and there will be no reason for any sane person to buy Windows ever again.

"currently Snapdragon is limited to Linux. But there are indications that Vole might come to the party and port Windows CE to Snapdragon devices. This is crucial if Qualcomm wants to tap the lucrative business market."

Why the fuck would you say that? Windows CE can't run existing Windows programs, so the whole advantage of running existing software is lost. Windows CE development has no advantage over Linux. I have done both, and prefer Linux. Microsoft has lost it's ability to woo developers in this market and it is them who will make the platform successful.

In the future this company aimed for the only sole supplier for semiconductor product to system integrator and hardware vendor.