Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Round Tripping - Oh The Shame Of It All, Part II
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 10:00 AM
In early February I linked to a Wall Street Journal column about the exciting world of round-tripping and how it is an overall embarrassing experience compared to the world of Palm. Fixing this is not so simple and it goes beyond coding.
Ed Hardy at Brighthand has written an article discussing the ramifications of MS whipping up a top notch Pocket Office suite on the third party market, the ramifications of the Pocket PC community of MS doing nothing and a few things in between. We discussed much of this at the MVP Summit two weeks ago. I don't recall seeing Ed in the room but he seems to have covered just about everything we talked about.
A perfect example of Microsoft doing nothing has given us superb apps like TextMaker, SpreadCE and Pocket Slides, but those all cost money and to avoid round tripping problems, require custom configurations in ActiveSync. Microsoft is indeed in a tough position here. What do you think?
Ed Hardy at Brighthand has written an article discussing the ramifications of MS whipping up a top notch Pocket Office suite on the third party market, the ramifications of the Pocket PC community of MS doing nothing and a few things in between. We discussed much of this at the MVP Summit two weeks ago. I don't recall seeing Ed in the room but he seems to have covered just about everything we talked about.
A perfect example of Microsoft doing nothing has given us superb apps like TextMaker, SpreadCE and Pocket Slides, but those all cost money and to avoid round tripping problems, require custom configurations in ActiveSync. Microsoft is indeed in a tough position here. What do you think?
