Microsoft readies for Wireless fight
boston.com | at | by Mike
After dominating the desktop, burrowing into the Internet and bursting into the video game market, Microsoft is making progress at getting firmly into the palm of your hand. Already a force in software for personal digital assistants, Microsoft is ramping up efforts to provide the operating systems for those devices' close relative: the next generation of "smart" cell phones that can handle e-mail, digital photos and other data. Microsoft splashed into the smart-phone scene in Europe last year with a device sold by the British wireless carrier Orange.