WM5 is a disappointment

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Am I the only one to fnd that WM5 is a complete waste of time and not worth
upgradong for let alone buying. It is in fact a huge step back from 2003.

First of all the flaky Activesync 4 which has had minimal testing on
anything approaching a real world PC. How could any developer worth anything
have not tested this on a machine with half-decent secruity measures,
especially moving the sync protocol to use the TCP/IP stack. TCP/IP ->
firewall -doh! (not the laughable toy Windows Firewall either).

Onto the operating system itself, where do I start?

1. The new "improved" memory management???? where is the improvement. How
can you class something an improvement when it slows everything down, makes
usability more difficult.

2. The communications manager. ....why???? a dumb interface hiding access to
needed functions, especially when you are setting up a wireless access, why
put on a pointless window just to be able to "switch on" a function???

3.GPRS why hide functionality again? Why remove the connect option from the
icon on the top bar. Why do I have to start an internet explorer session
just to connect to GPRS?

4.Messaging. Why remove the send/receive button? now we have to press menu
then navigate to the send/receive function. So much easier to use...I think
not... and why is Outlook email the default, we are not all corporate clones
yet

5.Contacts. Where are all the customisation funtions, why can't i arrange
the display to suit me. Why can't i select more than one contact at a time,
which bright spark of an MS designer (whose only experience of the real
world is the trip to the coffee machine) thought it was a good idea to only
select one contact at a time....

6. Uninstall programmes, doesn't work properly, stupid error message about
not being able to uninstall completley, then bits being left over even in
soft reset, making a hard reset inevitable. double doh!!!

7.Installation failures, for example installing MS own voice command, warns
not to install on anything but main memory but then when that is selected
comes up with a classic null error message, and takes up over 50% of the
program memory anyway.

For those of us who haven't got time to sit and devise brilliant technical
workarounds, for us who have to deal with an irate user group having this
approximation of an upgrade forced upon them. WM5 is a complete waste of
space.


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