[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Mark (NL)

Man these threads are always so funny :lol:

my personal thoughts on this?
I for one would've put my money on the PocketPC in a heartbeat when you would have asked like say a year ago... At the moment I'm not so sure anymore... I see SERIOUS lack in developement on the PocketPC side both on the Hardware as well on the OS side. I still can't believe the resolution on a PocketPC (or CE Handheld for that matter) hasn't changed anything for the last 3 yrs (and I'm saying 3yrs to be on the save side since it must actually be longer). I can't believe that we still are working on a platform based on WinCE 3.0 while all M$ preaches is .NET. Is that because we skip a version and we will get WinCE 5.0 with the next pocketpc version, or is that because M$ lost interest? What about the office compatibility? I mean Microsoft should feel embarresed to say the least that Palm OS based devices can handle documents better than their own OS based devices!

These posts are always humorous. :wink: How do you know what MS is working on? They have a good track record of releasing a new PDA every 18 months or so for the past 4 iterations. If that holds true, that means early-mid 2003 there would be something new. Since the MS mobile device group still has employees and many are developers, I must conclude they are working on something and not just sitting around belting out EUUs. Just because MS doesn't release press releases every few weeks like Palm does doesn't mean MS isn't busy on a newer Pocket PC OS.

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Mark (NL)

Man these threads are always so funny :lol:

my personal thoughts on this?
I for one would've put my money on the PocketPC in a heartbeat when you would have asked like say a year ago... At the moment I'm not so sure anymore... I see SERIOUS lack in developement on the PocketPC side both on the Hardware as well on the OS side. I still can't believe the resolution on a PocketPC (or CE Handheld for that matter) hasn't changed anything for the last 3 yrs (and I'm saying 3yrs to be on the save side since it must actually be longer). I can't believe that we still are working on a platform based on WinCE 3.0 while all M$ preaches is .NET. Is that because we skip a version and we will get WinCE 5.0 with the next pocketpc version, or is that because M$ lost interest? What about the office compatibility? I mean Microsoft should feel embarresed to say the least that Palm OS based devices can handle documents better than their own OS based devices!

These posts are always humorous. :wink: How do you know what MS is working on? They have a good track record of releasing a new PDA every 18 months or so for the past 4 iterations. If that holds true, that means early-mid 2003 there would be something new. Since the MS mobile device group still has employees and many are developers, I must conclude they are working on something and not just sitting around belting out EUUs. Just because MS doesn't release press releases every few weeks like Palm does doesn't mean MS isn't busy on a newer Pocket PC OS.