Let's hope that's not the case, though. Most Palms only have 2Mb to 8Mb of memory whereas most Wince devices have 32Mb or more. I doubt the Palm Office would fit. This is the same thing they did to Apple back in the day. Too bad you would have to convert every .doc, .xls, etc to .pdb to make it work on the palm, at least you can take a .doc file from the Mac to a PC and read it.
Palm needs to support some kind of direct file compatibility.
CE definately has an edge there. File compatibility shouldn't be a problem. Yes, it's annoying to have to convert a file to .pdb, but, honestly, is that much more than you're doing to load texts from websites and databases from wherever onto the palm. I'll leave it to them to hang themselves. I'm not gonna decide before the fact.