02-19-2002, 02:15 AM
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Executive Editor
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New Pocket PC MSN portal coming soon
I've received some interesting information about some upcoming changes to the MSN mobile portal that I think you'll be excited about, especially if you have a wireless connection for your Pocket PC. I'll be posting a follow-up message in the discussion forum with more photos and information. Special thanks to the anonymous birdie that sent me the information! :-)
"The MSN Mobile team is putting the finishing touches on a new portal for web-enabled devices. This will be MSN Mobile 5.0...and the first .NET enabled version to store zip codes, addresses, alerts etc. The working timeframe for release is April...coinciding with US availability of Pocket PC Phones. (the main issue needing to be resolved at this time is Hotmail availability...which requires work to be done on many fronts...from the Passport team, the MSN Hotmail team, the MSN Mobile team, and a special crack "MSN Integration" team.)
Following right on the heels of MSN Mobile 5.0, is MSN Mobile 6.0. Specifications for the follow-up release are already set, and include such items as real-time traffic & weather updates, special "wideband" entertainment for GPRS/CDMA 1X RTT users (the specs specifically mention a partnership w/ Verizon Wireless on marketing that aspect), Xbox Online support (via the MSN Gaming Zone...they are developing a massive online community service that will allow other members to interact with each other on a level unseen today. Say your uber-competitor just logged on and challenged you to a match of some 4-person multiplayer game. You're comrade-in-games isn't online right now. So, you send him a page via Xbox Online. Depending on the personal settings your comrade has, the system will send an appropriate (form-factor appropriate that is) page wherever he is. All powered by .NET of course. And the first integration with .NET My Services."
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02-19-2002, 02:18 AM
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02-19-2002, 02:33 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Finally
My ongoing complaint has always been that there were too few site with mobile users in mind and MS being a culprit. I think they need to lead by example and these screenshots look like a great example to follow. I hope more portals follow suit.
BTW, Jason - how comes it with these boards being mobile enabled?
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02-19-2002, 02:47 AM
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Executive Editor
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Finally
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Originally Posted by JonnoB
BTW, Jason - how comes it with these boards being mobile enabled?
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Patience grasshopper. 8)
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02-19-2002, 04:30 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Finally
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Patience grasshopper. 8)
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You must walk before you can run Grasshopper... 
What an amusing show that was, although I would have preferred Bruce Lee in the role a lot more than David Carradine, after all, Bruce was a little more authentic than David...
daniel
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02-19-2002, 05:43 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Finally
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Patience grasshopper. 8)
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Patience is for the bugs
I'll reservce judgment til we hear how well all this works.
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02-19-2002, 08:01 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Well, portals can be handy, I guess, but I hope this doesn't distract Microsoft from the more important task of improving Pocket IE. The 2002 version seems much worse than the 2000 version. It's much slower, can access fewer web sites, and has apparently given up any attempt to fit to screen.
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02-19-2002, 08:19 AM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by Disconnected
Well, portals can be handy, I guess, but I hope this doesn't distract Microsoft from the more important task of improving Pocket IE. The 2002 version seems much worse than the 2000 version. It's much slower, can access fewer web sites, and has apparently given up any attempt to fit to screen.
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All this work is done by the MSN team, not the developers who work on the Pocket PC OS. It's simply not a factor...
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02-19-2002, 10:49 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I'm waiting for my free copy of VStudio.Net from my campus seminar. I'm still undecided between Java and .Net (unlike many of my friends, I'd like to mostly stay with MS tools but this thing's too new and I don't have a good handle on it yet)...
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02-19-2002, 02:07 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by st63z
I'm waiting for my free copy of VStudio.Net from my campus seminar. I'm still undecided between Java and .Net (unlike many of my friends, I'd like to mostly stay with MS tools but this thing's too new and I don't have a good handle on it yet)...
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Forget Java! .net is very powerful, fast and it is actually fun to use! I'm telling you, I've been using it from tech preview and it is the best. I have written in Java before, the main difference is multiple inheritance, otherwise they're practically the same in terms of programming. The biggest benefit with .net is that you're not writing code that will have to slog along in a mind numbingly slow JVM.
MS have said that they are in the process of writing a FreeBSD version of the .net framework. the CLI (Common Language Interface ?) and C# are at ECMA which is at least one step better than Sun who refuse to standardise Java.
Anyway, I go a bit over excited there, sorry...  ops:
daniel
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