Re: General
- From: "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:46:23 -0700
No, it's been tested and beta-ed, etc. You don't realize the volume of
stuff that interacts with network adapters on your PC. The beta of 4.2
worked fine for me, but yet a significant number of people here are having
problems with the released version, even. The difference is configuration
on their PC, which might be running XP or 2000, wireless networking or wired
with any one of dozens of network helper programs, firewalls from half a
dozen or more vendors, anti-virus/anti-scripting programs from dozens of
vendors, VPN clients from half a dozen vendors and in several versions, etc.
The number of combinations that could be found in the real world is
literally astronomical; the size of the AS test team is not.
The basic reason for changing to a network communication scheme is that you
now communicate exactly the same way with Exchange Server as you do with
desktop AS. This is a huge improvement for the AS team (which is very
small). They now have the ability to add features, fix bugs, etc. without
having to fix the same bug in two places. The initial pain was, I'm sure,
an expected problem (although I think the severity of problems caught them a
little off-guard), but the long-term result should be better responsiveness
to problems and better synching, in general.
It's extremely painful for people who *are* having problems, and you can
certainly pin that on the change to network communications from just acting
like a regular USB device, but, frankly, I don't see that AS over USB was
super-reliable before the change. The change simply seems to have changed
who is running into problems. People who had 3.x working fine and never had
a problem with that now may have hell, while those who were always having
problems getting 3.x to work, if they're still around, may have smooth
sailing with 4.x (as I do).
Paul T.
"Matthew" <pgh1969pa@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's hard to that believe that anyone at Microsoft actually tested any of
their software before it was released. Why in the world did they screw up
AS with all this network crap that doesn't work escapes me!
I've been using PPCs since the begining and this is a real mess! If I'm
having problems with the 'new and improved' activesync, I wonder how new
users are doing! I thought 4.2 was to fix connection issues not create
them! AS 4.2 is the absolute worst version ever!
"Tim Maher-De Troyer" <tim.maherdetroyer4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the worst pieces of software
ever written.
As a result of it's complete inability to recognise USB devices (O2 XDA
II), except intermittently, no proper interface to Windows Media Player
10.x and above and it's thorough incapacity in delivering understandable
messages I shall be abandoning the entire charade in favour of BlackBerry
(You can get the music!).
This is the biggest load of unusable software that I have encountered in
years.
Dump it and get something written that can connect peripheral PC like
devices.
Tim
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