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Old 06-12-2004, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by alex_kac
I am about 99% sure its NOT WebIS Mail. Why? Simple - we've had WebIS Mail in public beta since November continuously. We've had builds that were almost exactly the same (except for context help and some connection fixes) for the last 6 weeks publicly downloadable and we've had several thousand downloads for each build. So with several thousand public testers of basically the same as 2.0 Release trial - we've not had that kind of issue.
I too doubt that a program could brick an iPAQ. One could certainly hard reset a Pocket PC, but actually bricking one would be a good feat.

However, just because a program has been extensively tested does not mean there won't be any bugs. I think Microsoft Service Packs and Security Updates prove that. :-D (And, yes, I know Windows is far more complex.)

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Originally Posted by alex_kac
The issue will most likely either hardware (bad memory that only shows up when its being stressed or used a lot) or some other strange interaction.
What about the CEMailTree failure? Is that a legitimate bug (can you reproduce it?) or do you think that's a result of bad hardware? If it's some interaction with another program, I'd think you'd want to find out about that.

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