Microsoft announces Windows Mobile Direct Push Technology
posted Jun 6th 2005 10:14AM
When Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 5.0 last month they left out all gooey details about the supposedly BlackBerry-killing push email technology it was going to include. We were all wondering what the deal was (maybe it wasn't ready or something), but earlier today Steve Ballmer put an end to all of the speculation and announced their new Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0, an upgrade for Exchange 2003 Servers with Service Pack 2 which'll add support for Microsoft's new Windows Mobile Direct Push Technology. They're obviously going straight for RIM's heart with this one, and the new software will let you wirelessly push all Outlook information, including email, calendar, contacts, etc directly to a Windows Mobile-powered handheld without having to install any additional servers.
Maybe M$ will be able to convince operators to make this affordable as well.
Push = data = cash
What would make this REALLY useful (in my opinion, of course...this IS the internet) is to somehow include the push technology in the independent Outlook client as well, so people like me could push my home mail to my mobile device if I wanted. Combine that with some reasonable mobile data plan rates...
Chad are you hinting that data providers are (GASP) charging too much for their current plans?! I can't fathom that they would charge anything above what they need to cover costs...
More junk from the No.1 shit producer. YAY
It's just Apple's way of getting rid of their inventory because they're sitting on stockpiles of iPods this year. Smart move Apple, smart move. Make the shareowners happy for once!
I don't see what the big deal is. Any smartphone with a properly implemented IMAP Client gets "push" email anyway. IMAP's IDLE mode allows a client to stay connected to the server, and when new mail arrives, the server informs the client.
I set this up on my treo 650 using chatter, and it works like a charm.
I guess having something that works out of the box is good, but then you have to buy a MS solution for the backend.
I think this is great, we have clients on exchange servers that use a convoluted path to get their email to their Treos. Anything to make this easier is a very good thing.
Welp, I guess it's time to put my Blackberrry 7100t on ebay!
MS has a booth down here at TechEd showing it off, looks very cool. A bunch of of the expo vendors are running around with PPC/Phone's running WM5.0 that have built in barcode scanners. They are the same one's used is the keynote demo.
Useless, if you want to be able to check email from multiple places, have your company use a plain jain SMTP mail server, not exchange just so you can do neat things. People at the end of the day want to be able to send and receive emails without hassle. MS gunning this product to work exclusively with an Exchange server is a bad move. Big companies dont even use exchange for the front end anyways, they use programs like sendmail...