Abby was reading an interview with Ed Colligan about the Treo 700 in the WSJ this morning. I have had a chance to sit down with Ed before and he is a good guy.

Regardless, I told her that the 700was a Treo with a Windows operating system. She said “oh”.

Cringely summed up a few days ago what she was thinking:

Microsoft can build software for a handheld or tablet computer, a mobile phone or a TV set-top box and even though the wrapper is different, the feel is always very much the same — that of a fat PC client. Microsoft can’t allow a phone to be a phone because they can’t dominate and control a plain old phone unless it is more Windows than phone. That’s a problem.

Yes it is.

But it appears that Palm is coming out with a 700p. That is something I might have to try.