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I know what you're thinking (assuming you think like my mom (hi mom!)): "How is Robert going to spend the month of June?"  I'll let the numbers explain:

  • 6 international MEDC events (Berlin, Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, and Sydney)
  • 1 travel agent who is probably getting tired of my daily emails
  • 27,469 air miles
  • 61 hours and 5 minutes of flight time
  • 2 dev & test teams counting on my ability to write specs at 30,000 feet
  • 5 days left to pack
  • 0 planning done so far to figure out what to see/do in my free time (any suggestions?)

But most importantly...

  • Thousands of very happy developers with 1 new Windows Mobile 5.0 development platform

-Robert Levy

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2005
    This 1 developer not very happy he has to buy 1 new development environment, not yet released, to debug code on 1 new operating system.

    Seriously, why drop support for eVC 4.0, which works with Windows CE 5.0? Doing so makes it very difficult for me to build a C++ application that works on both Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0, and to debug any problems that occur on the newer platform. I had this problem between Pocket PC 2002 and Windows Mobile 2003 - will I now need to have three versions of my projects? Yes, in the enterprise, we do go back that far. You seem to forget that Pocket PC 2002 is only three years old - companies do not want to replace their devices that frequently.
  • Anonymous
    May 28, 2005
    Agreed - Mike. I actually have a PocketPC 2003 and am amazed that I will have to actually think about replacing the unit later this year to get the latest features.

    It's enough to make me want to consider more open-sourced programs for the PocketPC rather than the provided ones.

    Why can't Windows Mobile 5.0 run on these devices as an upgrade? That would at least solve the end-users problems and make it easier for developers to swallow getting a new environment.

    It may not seem like much to those with corporate accounts but spending $500 a year for a new device that does pretty much what the previous one did - doesn't sound like a win-win, even if it does consolidate dev between two similar but different environments (Pocket PC and Smart Phone)
  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2005
    WM5 WILL run on your device. That's not the issue. Its up to the OEM's to write new drivers, regression test, and offer up upgrades for YOUR device. Not up to MS. If it was, every PPC would look exactly the same with no differences in any hardware so that they'd have one driver set.

    The issue that Mike brings up is that while under WM2002/2003 you get a free tool to do your dev (not a very good one either) WM5 requires the new VS2005 tool which is costly.

    But to help Mike out - you CAN use VS2005 to build ONE project/solution that compiles an app to run under WM2002/2003 and WM5.
  • Anonymous
    June 21, 2005
    "Thousands of very happy developers with 1 new Windows Mobile 5.0 development platform"

    Kudos!