Re: General

Well, I wonder how Apple seems to do a better job with their OS and itunes
over windows and media player. I have yet to own a dap that didn't have
some form of syncing problem with wmp. I've never been one to beat up on MS
for sport but lately I've realized that all their releases are no more than
betas.

I surely wish they would stop offering solutions looking for a problem. AS
3.8 worked well. AS 4.0 at least worked. AS 4.2 is the first version I could
not resolve my problems and I started with the palm-sized pc! If I could go
back to 4.0 I would but I can't since MS was kind enough to break it's
ability to sync with the new X51v rom.

I like Bill Gates but I sometimes hate the seed he has spawn. They don't
offer accessible support ($25.00 to discuss how they screwed up!) or listen
to what non-corporate customers want or need!

If you have solutions to my problems which get to the root of my problems,
I'd be more than willing to listen. Trying to convince me that 4.2 is
better is a hard sell. I don't care if it connects to an exchange server or
the moon if can't connect to my ppc! It should do this well *first* before
it tries to be something else! Any other rationalization is pointless! If
it can't do it's primary role, who cares about exchange server!

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
com> wrote in message news:%23fCgvC0rGHA.3748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
news:%23rgX5ObrGHA.4992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
news:eAjgAparGHA.2256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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