Lpc2000

>     MS makes many products that are not PC based and that use 
> microcontrollers.

Sorry, I assumed this was a well-known fact.  That's why I didn't
necessarily doubt the reps' statement, just thought he was trying to
impress us with a Microsoft reference.  Kinda wish I would have asked
what exactly MS wanted changed, but it wasn't important at the time.

Last summer I interviewed with a small consulting company that had
gotten a contract with MS to prototype a little hardware gizmo (some
sort of add-on for laptops).  They were pretty much left alone to
implement it as they wished, but MS did tell them up-front to not even
try using WinCE for cost and schedule reasons.  The place ended up
using an ARM7 (not sure of the actual part) with no OS.  That project
looked really fun, but it was wrapping up when I talked to them.  It
sounded like MS was actually great to work with.  Now that's probably
not a well-known fact ;)