September 27, 2005 9:47 AM PDT

Quote of the day: Lusting after Palm

In a story about how Microsoft and Palm united forces to create a Windows-based Treo, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates described his longtime intrigue with Palm, a company that has threatened to head off Microsoft's computing dominance with the power of pocket-size devices on the rise.

"Palm always did great work, and so we lusted after some of those things that they do well," Gates told reporters Monday. Click here for the full story.

 

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