Windows Phone Thoughts: A Look at ActiveSync 4.0...From an HPC Owner (!?)

"When it comes down to it, you either love it or hate it. ActiveSync is one of those programs through which your experience will be sound and trouble free, or will be dogged by problems of the type that you loose hair for. If you are the latter, then you probably dread those few seconds that pass each time you cradle your Handheld PC - Locating connection agent Connecting to Host - Connecting...So now as the entire industry holds its breath on the precipice of the promised realm of 64-bit computing, and consumer IT devices become increasingly more and more complex, increasingly more powerful it is almost time for Microsoft to shake up the way its Portable Devices interact with the workstation, and to do this, once again they are placing their eggs in the basket of an old friend... ActiveSync."

Chris Tilley at HPC Factor has done an in-depth article looking at ActiveSync 4.0. It's worth a read, but the feeling I get when reading it is that this is one of those "We used all our resources to re-build it from scratch but didn't end up with something as functional as the previous version. Maybe next time" scenarios. ;-) Remember, if you happen to find a link to the file, you'll lose WiFi sync, so step cautiously.