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Hi,
I've been reaserching UMPC(Ultra Mobile PC) devices, and have noticed that the industry has yet to take off. I was wandering that if i make my os for the UMPC, Could it actually become the prefered os for them, and make me millions?(ha, yeah right)

like Palm?

Maybe, but you'd have to work at it hard. I mean, a webbrowser, office software, e-mail client, networking, and drivers for everything before an organization would consider using your OS.

The simple answer it No , but all is not lost, desktop OS (even mini ones) are not going to make you any money as M$ has it well covered.
But you need to look to the next big OS type that will be needed.
Eg: robotic OS, for robots, there is not defector OS for them yet, but there will be a winner that makes million's.

I will start reasrching next generation os's and whatnot. Maybe one of us will get lucky and be the next Big Bill!!!.

P.S. I am into robotics, but, what do you think a robotic os needs?

Here will give you a good idea http://www.6711.com/art/bit_osro.htm
You need to work fast as M$ is starting a robotic group
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/06/20/1953256.shtml
There first product is a robotic vacuum cleaner, that will be the first M$ product, that does not suck .
Also my OS as been designed from the ground up to be robot friendly, you could look closely at legos mindstorms.

I've had a OQO for almost a year so I think all the big announcements about UMPC have been kind of funny to me. My OQO runs a normal copy of XP tablet PC and it seems to work just fine. I think most UMPC are going to be designed just for Windows and will be very hard to write drivers for.

I kinda agree with Dex, but in a more general fashion. I think you'll see alot more people make OSes for special purposes and embedded systems. Things like robotics but also dashboard computers for cars and that type of stuff. I think ARM might get as popular as x86 for OSDev'ing.

If anyone cares, me and some other guys are discussing RoboOS(my newest idea) at http://www.lynxmotion.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=856