Alliance with Microsoft
How did Bill Gates turn into the best spokesman for HTC? This is how the story started……
In 1997, the mainstream of technology was notebook computers; PDA was still not very popular. In the PDA world, the main operating system was from PALM, and the second was Nokia’s Symbian. Even though Microsoft was a huge company, they had just started to do PDAs, so they hadn’t developed a product that could carry their own operation system.
In the Las Vegas show that was held in 1997, a multicolored PDA appeared. It only occupied a little space of the room, but it attracted Microsoft’s attention. Thus, the HTC members were invited to Microsoft’s general headquarters to present their product.
In the general headquarters of Microsoft, HTC showed them their result of extreme hard work, the first PDA that was equipped with the operating system from Microsoft. Every Microsoft engineer in that room shouted, “This is what we have wanted, and now you made it come true !”
Having witnessed HTC’s technical abilities, Microsoft decided to let HTC work closely with them.
As for HTC, following Microsoft, a name that stands for the market, it opened its door to the world as expected.
1997 International Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (Picture: IT home net)