Jason's Right On...
I'm dealing with this issue right now, but as regards a WM PDA.
I've used both Palms and Pocket PC's for the last 10 years, pretty equally actually. I have a (new to me) HP HX4700. I has WM 2003SE. I'd like to upgrade it to 6.0 and skip the atrocious WM 5.0 that was released by HP.
Jason hit the nail on the head: the OS updates are left up to the vendor or OEM, when they should be the responsibility of the OS company, in this case M$.
When the OEM's have the responsibility for OS or ROM updates, the users mostly get left in the cold. The OS should be the same and work the same on any vendor's device so that there's no learning curve for the user. M$ writes the base OS, but then the OEM's add so much bloat that in some cases, the OS doesn't even have the same interface from one device to the other.
In the case of the HX4700, HP botched the release of 5.0 (which was late) and left users in a lurch when it came to 6.0 updates. Users (intrepid ones at that), are left to try to load ROM's cooked from code and ported to their device.
It'd be much simpler if M$ handled everything. At least the users would have only one company to deal with.
Tony
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