[possmann]

Thanks for the report - great job!

[possmann]

Thanks for the report - great job!

[Jonathan1]

Originally Posted by jkendrick

Freudian slip?

LOL. Yep. Funny thing is I was on Apple's site mulling over getting an iPod....So ya I'm guessing a small slip there

[Kris Kumar]

Hi Guys,

Well there is more to the report....if you head over to the smartphonethoughts.com discussion, pictures from the MSFT presentation have been posted.

http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/fo...ic.php?p=37214

Check out the new cool concepts that MSFT hardware team is thinking of bringing to market.

Kris

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by popabawa

Cool. The current XML home screen implementaion on SmartPhone is very nice & flexible so this sounds purrr-fect. Bet it's not implemented in WM2003 SE though is it?

Iain.

Nope....have to wait.

MSFT was bragging about how the new Notifications Broker (for alerts regarding various system states, coupled with CF .NET improvements) and XHTML enable 'richer' home screens.

For WM2003 SE in Smartphones, there is a new tag in the Home Screen XML to specify which resolution the Home Screen is targeting. But as I sid this SE improvement is only for Smartphones.

Kris

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by manywhere

I wonder if the improved CAB installation will allow one to choose to which location it will install when you're running the CAB straight on the device. Would be nice if they've fixed that.

Dont have specific answer. But what was said was they will take the best features from each (SP and PPC) and combine it in the new release. And I am sure that they will improve and have that feature.

And it will take care of problems like the one that I faced, where I accidently (well not accidently, I did it intentionally ;-)) tried to install a Pkt PC app on Smartphone and the installer died and jammed the future installs from running on the phone.

Kris

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by Jonathan1

The only device that did this for me was my original iPod 3635.

(I know you meant iPaq.) But I was thinking along the same lines during the trip, we dont have any stunning devices. And was contemplating if I should start a petition addressed to Steve Jobs, asking him to do a Pocket PC device ;-) They you and I can have an "iPod 3635".

What do you say :-) What we need is the Apple's design ingenuity and MSFT software. Deadly combo.

Kris

BTW: Moto may be the answer...they have done to the Pkt PC phone edition and Smartphone platform, what Compaq did to Pkt PC years ago. And the CTO from Moto did say that "the best is still to come". Did you know they designed and lauched all the 3 new phones in a matter of a year. And have more in the pipeline.

[dean_shan]

Originally Posted by ryaninc

This all sounds very cool, except for the error reporting...that drives me crazy in XP and the thought of having that in a PPC isn't very appealing. :roll:

I hate that. Why does Microsoft need to know when ever a program crashes.

[Kris Kumar]

Originally Posted by dean_shan

I hate that. Why does Microsoft need to know when ever a program crashes.

Its voluntary (just like in XP). User will be prompted before the info is sent.

On the lighter side, I think the wireless carriers would love to have this feature on the phones :-) I mean with all the crashes (common on Windows Mobile;-)) carriers would make money by billing the user for the error report submission.

kris

[dean_shan]

Originally Posted by kris_kumar

Its voluntary (just like in XP). User will be prompted before the info is sent.

I know it's voluntary, I just hate the prompt.

[Robert Levy]

Originally Posted by dean_shan

I hate that. Why does Microsoft need to know when ever a program crashes.

So we know what to fix