It will look like this, but need a lot of reboots!
Blackberry killer? It is to laugh.
Microsoft Monday took the wraps off the push e-mail technology that includes capabilities that will compete directly with always-on e-mail capabilities from vendors such as Research In Motion and Good Technology.
The company said at the Microsoft TechEd 2005 conference in Orlando that its Messaging and Security Feature Pack for the forthcoming Windows Mobile 5.0 update will include what it calls “direct push technology.” That technology will connect mobile devices directly with Exchange server without additional server software, the company said in a statement.
Wow, Microsoft can REALLY innovate! Emails that are PUSHED directly to your email client! Simply astonishing!
And it can connect directly to an Exchange server, i.e., and email server, get and send mails, WITHOUT requiring a SECOND or THIRD email server. Wow. Only ONE email server is required. Why didn’t I think of that?!
Well, it’s great news that Microsoft isn’t wasting that cash cow it’s sitting on, nothing but cutting edge research is coming out of Seattle!
And in a related story, security experts have already found 100 security flaws in the new Windows mobile 5.0. Microsoft has already dimissed the report, stating only that Microsoft products are more secure then ever.
I don’t know, It has got me thinking of all the project code names because this one seems conspicuous in it’s absence. So I am thinking the consumer public as opposed to corperate public might code name it “Raspberies” because most cant take advantage of the whole exchange server thing. And at first glance the corperate world might code name it “Bad Technology” sight unseen if it takes them as long to get it to market as the X-Box or worse that other catagory killer WebTV.
It is strange that something that seems a simple and natural idea is agonised over in development for so long so that it is not only late to market but then also severly limited in what it actually does. MS spends so much time trying to make it as well un-crackable and they are promply reverse engeneered. And the horror then of an always on device by MS given it’s history of vulnerabilities; could this potentially be viewed as a potential case of corperate wreckless endagerment?
It would be really abusing if the device was really running an embeded linux with the all the opensource software bridging from Novelle/Ximian Evolution to tap the windows mobile api. I can’t imagine anything Windows being always on.
Makes me think about the recent Microsoft commercials and how they see the children of the world and their potential like a loving parent, and for the rest of us, they have us in mind as “GuineaPigs In Motion.”
Oh yea, I am going to buy a device that will push spam and ads because someone figures out how to hack it a week after it is released. But you know It might be the best kept paranoid secret; it is designed that way on purpose.
100 security issues are not impressive – if true they will be addressed by MS in due course.
The product itself is also not impressive…
Check out the icons. They look like something designed for a WW2 Army training film strip [remember those?]. Maybe, M$oft is expecting a boost from the Patriot Act.
Like, does it have a built-in Carnivore shunt that sends a copy of suspicious emails straight to the Dept. of non-Justice?