has brought on the new employ — a former founding member of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s Iris Associates — to help the Redmond software company port the Windows Mobile operating system to new form factors. Kawell, whose title is “Distinguished Engineer in the Mobile Communications Business Group,
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