Microsoft has released three papers designed to help mobile application developers from other platforms migrate their applications to Windows Mobile. The first and second papers involve migrating developers and applications from Symbian OS and the third paper is a guide for developers moving from Palm OS.
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Member since:2005-07-06
You live in a world of dreams. MS products integrate with MS products and that's about it.
My company (very large) runs a heavily customised version of windows2000, to make it do things on the desktop that even XP doesn't do as standard. and linux is being deployed more and more, because it can do anything from db serving to run thin clients networks and grid computing.
The nokia web tablet runs linux but you will never be able to guess.
But I share your opinion about these whining competing companies that complain about microsoft and still confort its monopoly in everything they do and fail to do.
Member since:2005-07-06
You live in a world of dreams. MS products integrate with MS products and that's about it.
And what is wrong with that? Microsofts vision is to create a end to end product line up that caters for every facit of a business, and then get them to work nicely together in concert.
I don't see anything wrong with that, and SUN is working towards the same thing with their product stack; don't be surprised to see closer integration between the SUN Application Server and StarOffice; or greater features in the Groupware component that is being built upon the existing OpenOffice/StarOffice API.
My company (very large) runs a heavily customised version of windows2000, to make it do things on the desktop that even XP doesn't do as standard. and linux is being deployed more and more, because it can do anything from db serving to run thin clients networks and grid computing.
Which is using Linux is niche places; nothing wrong with that, but the fact remains that Linux lacks the network of ISV's that make it a viable alternative for the desktop, and lacks the depth and breadth of enterprise support in regards to third party service and software vendors - sorry, IBM is but one company; not everyone is willing to toe the line and go with their global services.
The nokia web tablet runs linux but you will never be able to guess.
Interesting, where is it? I go down to the local computer store, I can't seem to be able to purchase it. A product that I can't purchase is as useless as a product that is fautly; if it can't do what I want or I can purchase the product, then it is a waste of time - just like the Sharp PDA which was only available in one country.
But I share your opinion about these whining competing companies that complain about microsoft and still confort its monopoly in everything they do and fail to do.
Or worse, they *SEE* the threat and do nothing OR worse still, they do a Netscape, and rather than improving their product, they create competing Javascript standards that NO ONE supported - had they added Javascript features that HELPED developers, then its a different story, but the fact remains, Netscape tried to out-Microsoft Microsoft.
I moved from Netscape 4.7 because of the cronic crashing, it was bloody awful on Windows 9x and even under Windows 2000 - it was a bloody attrocious product that was poorly developed resulting in legions of companies deciding that IE and Outlook were 'good enough' and decided to go with the 'good enough' solution as they actually saw the short comings being corrected, and errors being solved.
Member since:2005-07-06
It won't take off on the PDA market, just like *NIX is failing to take off on the desktop - geeks don't understand users or business requirements. Those who use PDA's want to be able to syncronise easily with their current software.
Again, you're somebody who's knowledge of the desktop computer world simply does not apply in the mobile world. In the mobile world Linux is not an end product but something that can be moulded and combined with a front-end like Qtopia to be a user friendly PDA/phone better than Windows Mobile could ever be. That's why Apple will continue to kick Microsoft all over regarding music, media and the iPod because in the consumer, brand conscious world, customisation, differentiation, brand and polish are kings. Now put two companies called Microsoft and Dell together with this, compare and contrast and ask yourself if they've got that X factor. Not a chance, and that's on top of all the economic reasons why it's just not going to work out.
No mobile or consumer electronics company is going to sign an OEM agreement with Microsoft to put Windows on every device that they develop from a toaster to a mobile phone. Economics just simply won't allow it.
Linux is just such a natural fit for the mobile world, more so than the desktop, because that's what different manufacturers, networks and providers want and need. They do not want a Windows Mobile OEM agreement with Microsoft otherwise where's the differentiation, cost and customisation benefits? The market demands it.
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2005-07-06
It won't take off on the PDA market, just like *NIX is failing to take off on the desktop - geeks don't understand users or business requirements. Those who use PDA's want to be able to syncronise easily with their current software.
From the business point of view, they want the PDA to fit into their work flow, they want it to work semlessly with all the software they have; they want the whole setup, mobile, PDA, laptops, email and so forth to all work effortlessly together, and like I said, *NIX developers just don't get it - if they did, we wouldn't have such misguided and half assed attempts at catering for desktop users.
Microsoft isn't the devil; want to blame someone for the destruction of competition, blame the crappy management of those companies who spent more time whining and less time developing solutions to solve REAL business problems. Imagine if PalmOS spent more time improving their operating system in regards to being more than just a PDA operating system; you'd see the possibilities of PalmOS being used on more than just PDAs; the fact is, however, PalmOS management are shorted sited and lack vision.