Windows Treo released today

PALM IS is about to release its Windows Treo today, just as reviews are set to write off the Volish operating system that will run the gadget.

Palm, Microsoft, and Verizon have booked a press conference in San Francisco to launch the new Windows-based Treo smart phone.

The three companies did not offer any details about the subject, they just assumed the loyal IT Press of America would show up to the Palace Hotel to see what they were banging on about.

At the meeting will be Palm's president and Ed Colligan Microsoft Chairman and software king of the world Sir William Gates III and Verizon President Denny Strigl.

Palm has dumped PalmSource, the company that develops the Palm OS, and it looks like it will move to Windows Mobile 5.0. Engadget posted photos of the Treo 700w, here last week. There it was running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0. Windows Mobile 5.0 is considered by some reviewers to be a step in the right direction for Vole, but otherwise don't like it.

When the Washington Post tried it out on the Dell Axim X51v they found it was fine so long as you didn't try to run any of the exciting Volish software. If you tried to jot down a few notes with it, it could take some time.

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