Re: ActiveSync 4.5 and Microsoft's amazing ignorance of the true problem therein!

On Sep 15, 10:12 pm, juliejenni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
2 - Microsoft's conflict resolution method is simple - if they would
just READ some of the well-documented problems stated by multiple
people, they would see that. Here is one example:http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/microsoft/public/pocketpc/activesync...
HEY MICROSOFT - are you even listening to your customers?

The statement above should have read "...is simple, but it doesn't
work..."

And the weblink with a well-documented example is:
https://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsMobile/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1990442&SiteID=65

On Microsoft's own website.

PS - does Microsoft use their own software? I am guessing that Bill
and others might have a scenario like this...

Early Morning: get up and check email, etc... on pda running WM6
- see last minute changes to the schedule and update same on pda's
Outlook Calendar

Get to the office: sync with desktop/laptop computer
- get other changes from same

Later on - look at their pda and expect to see the merged/changed
information
- from the changes made earlier on both their pda and their desk/
laptop


Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, anymore.
We, the customers have been using the devices this way for years.
Now it doesnt work that way.
-We lose records
-We miss appointments.
-We are embarrassed and inconvenienced to ask our contacts for
updates, yet again, and make the changes, hoping that this time
they'll 'stick'
-We cannot rely on our pda to have accurate information any more
-We cannot rely on our computers or pda's to have calendars that are
accurate any more
-We cannot rely on our computers or pda's to have tasksthat are
accurate any more
-We cannot rely on our computers to or pda's have contacts that are
accurate any more

Should we go back to pen and ink?
This isn't a good thing.

Don't the MVP's use these tools?
Am I missing something? If so, please tell me and the many, many
others who are posting and lamenting this serious problem how we can
get around it.

Maybe all of you are using competitor's products, like "Good" or
something? What about those of us who are home or small business users
who dont have enterprise servers and who just want to be able to keep
our lives in order, using the tools that are supposed to do so?

Should we go back to the PALM OS? If this isn't resolved, that's what
I am going to be forced to do, much to my dismay.

Please help.
.

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