I'm no marketing genius, but maybe if Palm deemed to let us Yurpeens buy the things, their sales might be higher ?

Or are the Palm genii busy translating their weird adverts for maximental vertical integration demographic cross-border impact ?

Their Ex-CEO promised them to us at the same time as the Yanks, so an apology would be nice, too.

A blow to microsoft indeed. The whole problem with phones from MS's perspective is that phones are too closed. They're not an open computing platform where you can move data and software around when you get additional or more phones. Whenever people buy a new phone, it's a whole new standalone device so having a new OS with the phone doesn't matter. MS can only succeed in the phone market by somehow tying people's data and programs to the OS rather than to the manufacturer's phone.

What phones? They are going to stop making their Windows Mobile phones and only make their new Pre and Pixi phones, which never had Windows Mobile on them in the first place.

HMMMMM.....

Does this mean that the phones will be sold for less?

Dumping Microsoft as the phone OS should mean that they won't have to pay any license fees.

I look forward to seeing a price reduction in these phones...... or perhaps not.