TWICE - June 23, 2003

Microsoft confirmed that shipments of A/V portables based on its Media2Go platform will be pushed back until 2004 from fall 2003."We're not going to start showing Media2Go devices until Microsoft and our partners are ready to put our best foot forward," said Brian Riseland, product manager in Microsoft's embedded devices group.

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