Astraware Announces Windows Mobile™ 5.0 Support for Several Games

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.astraware.com/company/whatsnew.php#117' target='_blank'>http://www.astraware.com/company/whatsnew.php#117</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Astraware, a Microsoft® Certified Partner Company, is excited to announce that several of their games have now been updated to support devices running Windows Mobile™ 5.0. A total of 11 games have been updated to support Windows Mobile™ 5.0 for Pocket PC handhelds, with 4 of these titles also supporting Windows Mobile™ 5.0 Smartphone devices."</i><br /><br />Good to see software companies coming out with this before the devices are actually readily available. It seemed with WM2003 it was reversed. I recall waiting around for a few applications to be upgraded.

[Robert Levy]

I'm glad you noticed the difference :)

For WM5, we made a huge investment in re-engineering how we handle with compatibility during the development cycle.

Aside from finding and fixing a ridiculous number of backwards compatibility related issues that users will never know ever existed, we determined the exact causes for applications not running correctly on WM5 in cases where we couldn't make OS changes to fix them. Those details were published in the Migration FAQ on MSDN back in May and many ISVs were made aware of issues specifc to their applications long before WM5 was even announced.

[Mike Temporale]

many ISVs were made aware of issues specifc to their applications long before WM5 was even announced.

Wow, nice work guys. That must have been a huge undertaking to isolate the different applications and notifying the ISV. :werenotworthy: