Heather here. Now it’s my turn for a few short impressions. Yesterday, we attended the Pocket PC launch, which took place in New York’s famous Grand Central Station, a beautiful building, and big. When you walk in you see the entrance to Michael Jordan’s restaurant, The Steak House, which is where Steve Ballmer gave his keynote address. What he had to say about the Pocket PC was entertaining enough to keep me awake at such an early hour. The multimedia capabilities of the brand new palm-sized Pocket PC were projected on huge screens. They started the presentation off with with a short animation, produced by AtomFilms, which featured a businessperson talking to a cartoon Steve Ballmer.

After that, we were jostled by hurried commuters as we made our way up to to the area where the vendors were waiting for us. This makeshift tradeshow floor was packed with people, cheerful enough with eachother, although annoyed with the crowding. I had the opportunity to play PacMan on an HP Jornada. I also go to see for myself what the Pocket PC can do. Unfortunately, because of the lack of time and space to move, I wasn’t able to see all the stuff I heard the buzz about later. Read the other post on today’s Windows CE Power News Page and find out more about the Pocket PC. Of course, in future issues, we’ll have all the Pocket PC news that’s fit to print, er, serve.