Why no Outlook Mobile for Windows Mobile???

[Disheartened Loyalist]

Why isn't there a Microsoft Outlook Mobile, instead of these separate,
disparate applications? I am a loyal Outlook user for all of my organization
needs, but without a true mobile version--a companion to the desktop
version--, I cannot continue to utilize Outlook any longer. If you are not
going to make a Microsoft Outlook Mobile for Windows Mobile, then there is
certainly no possibility of you ever offering it for the iPhone, so I'm going
to take my desktop organizational needs to a software program that works with
the iPhone. And guess what? When it comes time for a new computer (a “PCâ€),
I'm going to buy an Apple .PC.

And you know why I'm going to do this? Because all businesses are seeing
the NEED and developing applications to work with their site and the iPhone.
Do I see them offering an "app" for Windows Mobile? No!

I'm sorry Microsoft, I stayed with ya from the good ol' DOS days, but your
time has come and gone. It's time to let a more user friendly platform take
the stage, and that platform is Apple Macintosh with the iPhone. I will
eventually figure out how to do all the “power user†things I do on the
Microsoft platform on the Apple platform, and who knows what PDA software
will be developed for the two, but it will certainly be better than the
current offerings of one Microsoft, Inc.

A truly disheartened Microsoft loyalist,

Juan Antonio Dominion
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Ya gotta do what's best for you... and if Mac and iphone better meets your
needs, that’s what you need to use.

FWIW, The current mobile outlook is developed and supported by the windows
mobility group, not outlook. The windows mobile and desktop OS is very much
different and they would need a team experienced in developing for mobile OS
to write an Outlook for mobile application.

--

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

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[VanguardLH]

Why isn't there a Microsoft Outlook Mobile, instead of these separate,
disparate applications? I am a loyal Outlook user for all of my organization
needs, but without a true mobile version--a companion to the desktop
version--, I cannot continue to utilize Outlook any longer. If you are not
going to make a Microsoft Outlook Mobile for Windows Mobile, then there is
certainly no possibility of you ever offering it for the iPhone, so I'm going
to take my desktop organizational needs to a software program that works with
the iPhone. And guess what? When it comes time for a new computer (a ´PC¡),
I'm going to buy an Apple .PC.

And you know why I'm going to do this? Because all businesses are seeing
the NEED and developing applications to work with their site and the iPhone.
Do I see them offering an "app" for Windows Mobile? No!

I'm sorry Microsoft, I stayed with ya from the good ol' DOS days, but your
time has come and gone. It's time to let a more user friendly platform take
the stage, and that platform is Apple Macintosh with the iPhone. I will
eventually figure out how to do all the ´power user¡ things I do on the
Microsoft platform on the Apple platform, and who knows what PDA software
will be developed for the two, but it will certainly be better than the
current offerings of one Microsoft, Inc.

A truly disheartened Microsoft loyalist,

Juan Antonio Dominion
(e-mail address removed)

Just WHO do you think that you are "threatening" here with your bogus
claim (as it almost always is) of leaving Microsoftdom? You really
thought this was a venue to free support from Microsoft? Not acquainted
with Usenet, are you? Apparently you don't know that Microsoft usurps
Usenet (newsgroups) to pretend they have these forums by using a
webnews-for-dummies gateway to Usenet. You think we users care about
your personal choice for an OS or applications?

What is Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
http://www.masonicinfo.com/newsgroups.htm
http://www.mcfedries.com/Ramblings/usenet-primer.asp

When using a webnews-for-dummies interface, like Microsoft's Communities
or Google Groups or a forum-to-Usenet proxy, those are gateways to
Usenet. Despite the appearance of a forum, you are participating in a
newsgroup (Usenet).