WMDC support for Windows Calendar, Contacts and Mail

[Colmeister]

In case there's anyone from Microsoft lurking around here, is there a
timescale for when Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) will allow me
to sync my PocketPC with Windows Vistas Calendar, Contacts and Mail?

This functionality really should have been built-in from the start, I
should have to install Office to do something so basic. I sometimes
wonder if Microsoft actually think about what their users want.

End rant.


Colin

 

[Ferd Burfel]

They may have that on their "Wish List", but I would think that would have
to coincide with a new version of Windows Mobile that would read the files
from Calendar, Mail and Contacts, since they are different from Outlook
files.

Ferd

 

[Max]

Pocket PCs can ONLY sync contacts/mail/calendar with Outlook.
This is the way it has always been (long before Vista), and likely the way
it will always be.
Has nothing to do with WMDC--ActiveSync (insert version number here) is/was
always the same.

 

[Colmeister]

Hi Max,

You're right to say that it's always been this way, but it's still
ridiculous.

I've seen a post on one of the MS blogs from someone responsible for
WMDC/Vista saying that this functionality is 'in their roadmap' but
they didn't give a timescale. That post was from 2007 IIRC and
there's been no news since.

Colin

 

[Max]

Don't always believe what you may read in a blog. Many are the internet
version of The National Inquirer--where facts and reality don't matter.
There have been many pie-in-the-sky "roadmaps" that are eventually shelved
and forgotten.
Pocket PCs come with Pocket Outlook. Until other pocket Windows
communication apps start shipping (which will never happen) with different
formats/structures than Outlook, it's strictly P-Outlook to Outlook and
back. Which has always been the reason some version of Outlook for the PC
always came on the Pocket PC CD.