Actually, it's only $7.50 in the US...
http://www.microsoft.com/pocketpc/developer.asp
It's VB and VC for embedded devices, not the full blown VB/VC stuff.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Palm PDA - Market Share ???
> $15 for VB and VC???? Maybe in the UK, but not in the US. Full versions of
> those products are $480 each. Additionally, back when it was called Win CE
> (I don't know if this is still true - perhaps that's what you can get for
> $15), you still had to get the add-ons for those products to write Win CE
> programs (additional $), and they only ran on a Windows NT box (another
> investment if you didn't happen to have one). $300 for a polished and
> complete IDE is a good deal by US standards.
>
> (Please let me know if you can really get a compiler for $15 in the UK -
> Thanks)
>
> Thomas McCormick
> Centennial Technologies
> 7 Lopez Road
> Wilmington, MA 01887
> Phone: (978) 805-2147
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Logie Urquhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:53 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Palm PDA - Market Share ???
>
> > 2.) Yeah, from real high to kinda high. Personally, I
> cannot
> > justify $500+
> > for a PDA.
>
> In the UK price for IIIc ~ �300, price for iPaq ~ �420, is
> �120 worth the
> extra CPU speed, sound, and 32mb RAM (compare to 8mb on
> IIIc).
>
> IMHO Yes I think the iPaq is well worth the price.
>
> You also have to consider the price of the dev. tools. MS
> are saying you get
> the version of VB and VC++ for the price of the CD ($15).
> While the palm
> "offical" dev tool (Code warrior) costs $300+.
>
> You can get the GCC compiler, but the version I use (links
> from
> www.vfdide.com) seems to be very difficult to set up, as I
> only have a Palm
> III, and need to use the older SDK.
>
>
> > 3.) Whose demands? Where are these posted? IMHO, Palm has
> > been incredibly
> > responsive in supplying what people really demand as
> compared to what
> > marketing surveys have indicated. In the past, Palm
> supplied
> > a black and
> > white PDA and reduced power CPU with Graffiti when the
> market was
> > "demanding" a high powered color PDA with true handwriting
>
> > recognition.
>
> BTW The iPaq Pocket PC OS uses a handwritting system very
> similer to that on
> the Palm. I was able to enter data in to a HP machine
> (running same OS) with
> no problems at all.
>
>
> Logie
>
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