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US Census Bureau to use 500,000 Windows Mobile Devices
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"Microsoft Corp. won its biggest-ever contract for mobile-phone software, an order from the U.S. Census Bureau that covers 500,000 handsets. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, plans to unveil the deal as early as today, general manager Scott Horn said in an interview. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft expects to increase its mobile unit's sales to $1 billion in one to three years, from $337 million last year, and break the dominance of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry. ``Up until now, BlackBerry had the market for themselves,'' Pieter Knook, a Microsoft senior vice president, said in an interview. ``That landscape has changed.'' Sales of handsets with Windows will double to 20 million units in 2007 as corporate customers opt for those devices instead of the BlackBerry, Knook said. They still would be just a fraction of Microsoft's almost $40 billion in annual sales. The company declined to disclose the value of the Census Bureau contract for Windows Mobile devices, which census takers will use to collect information door-to-door during the 2010 U.S. census."
All indications are that they will be using a Wizard for this, but I haven't seen anything official - other than the device is being made by HTC. Regardless of what device it is and what version of Windows Mobile it will be running, this is a HUGE win for Microsoft and the Windows Mobile platform. Way to go! 
 Discuss this story [4 replies]  Source: Ryan Hayhurst
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Posted by Darius Wey on Friday, December 22, 2006 @ 04:00 AM
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by Jerry Raia and Kris Kumar, Thursday, October 19, 2006
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