Microsoft has four key 'visions' for Pocket PC 2003 (PPC 2003): make it easier for manufacturers to innovate, improve the 'wireless experience', bring easy instant messaging to the PDA, and expand the 'media experience'.

An often irreverent look at some of the past week's other news.

Microsoft this week released public previews of the 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as it changed the official names of the high-end operating systems.

Printer sales in Australia fell 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 to 390,000 units, and are expected to fall another 13 percent for the full year 2004, IDC said.

System builders encouraged to push Office 2007.

Recognising that the Linux desktop market is only going to grow, and that there's money to made in the corporate arena, Sun's Java Desktop 2003 is squarely aimed at companies looking for a cheap, easy, and compatible alternative to Microsoft's (often expensive) dominance.

04/04/2003 When Tezuka Osamu created the Astro Boy comic in 1951, the character's fictional birth date was set 'a long way into the future': 7 April 2003. It's time for another adventure...

In the early-to-mid 'nineties, the industry was buzzing with speculation about the 'new' 32-bit computing platform and, more importantly, how it would integrate into the 16-bit environment.

21/03/2003 Some people's points of view on the war hit home hard, because they're really personal. Now, that's one thing the Net is good at - making it personal.

21/03/2003 Some people's points of view on the war hit home hard, because they're really personal. Now, that's one thing the Net is good at - making it personal.

14/03/2003 . . .in which PCA readers express their opinions on Internet nasties and how parents can deal with them.

Early last year we predicted that 2003 would be the year of the TFT, and we were proven right. TFT prices tumbled to affordable levels, and for the first time TFTs were arriving that had comparable quality to CRTs.