...and Microsoft announced they had agreed to adopt Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for use in Sony consumer-electronics gear, taking a big step toward the oft-hyped "convergence" ideal of computers, TVs, stereos, phones and...

...early reaction is promising to the cutting-edge product, a potential antidote to a yearlong sales malaise in consumer electronics gear. But as makers of DVD players try to expand sales beyond "early adopters" - consumers like Trask who just...