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Windows Vista to Lock Out Old PDAs
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Windows Vista has made no bones about stating that some features in XP would be watered-down,
“simplified”, or otherwise re-designed to be made easier for users. Some things such as Disk Defragmenter now require complex command-line codes to accomplish the same tasks.
However, the Windows Mobile Device Center has been hailed as improving things for all users. It replaces ActiveSync with a more user-friendly experience for talking to their PDA… except those with Pocket PC 2002 devices. The “feature-complete” Release Candidate 2, and its accompanying Windows Mobile Device center talks great with Windows Mobile 2003 and 5.0 devices.
However, Pocket PC devices running Windows Mobile 2002 are left out in the cold. Pocket PC 2002 has exited "Mainstream Support", which is a Microsoft term for the product’s life-cycle. After such time, Microsoft policy is to not devote additional resources to such platforms. Microsoft has even gone as far as to suggest Pocket PC 2002 device users will be left out of future ActiveSync for Windows 2000/XP updates. However, considering such code changes aren’t likely, it is only Windows Vista that appears to be impacted by this change.
Microsoft confirmed these details…PCS Intel - Windows Vista to Lock Out Old PDAs
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