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Originally Posted by r@dimus
Until Microsoft can release an enterprise push mail system as tight and secure as RIM's I kind of doubt it. Enterprise sales are what put RIM where they are today simply because of the kind of control you can have over the remote devices via BES. You can't even come close to locking a PPC down compared to the extent that you can lock down a Blackberry.
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Interestingly, there's one twist in this argument: don't RIM products still communicate through RIM's own servers? The one significant security advantage with Direct Push is that the device communicates
only with the corporate Exchange server. No middlemen, and everything's SSL encrypted/certified.
I do buy the reliability argument, though. Blackberries' simplicity makes them very reliable at the everyday task they were designed to do: handle email. However, my 700w is the first Pocket PC that I've owned that actually comes close, and that's a huge step up for MS.
--janak