{"id":248,"date":"2006-09-03T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/248"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:10:46","slug":"will-vista-ever-synchronize-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/will-vista-ever-synchronize-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Vista <em>Ever<\/em> Synchronize right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600, the one we didn&#8217;t get a chance to review..) is just great. It runs really fast, even faster than XP on this Centrino Duo with 2GB of memory. It&#8217;s stable (I haven&#8217;t restarted since installing it half a day ago, which for me is quite an accomplishment), and doesn&#8217;t require reboots even after installing core system drivers, such as the chipset, onboard SATA controllers, and audio devices, whether you use XP or Vista drivers, it just works.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve got that out of the way: Vista support for Pocket PC or Windows Mobile 5.0 devices is terrible. Very terrible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielmoth.com\/Blog\/vista-activesync-replacement.aspx\" rel=\"follow\">Some people<\/a> were really happy back when Beta 2 got an update that fixed all aspects of Windows Mobile synchronization with Windows Vista, but guess what&#8230; it still doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got 5 Windows-powered PDAs in the house (no, they&#8217;re not <em>all<\/em> mine), and <em>none of them<\/em> synchronize properly with Windows Vista. One of them is a legacy Windows CE 3.x PDA, two are Pocket PC 2002, and the last two are Windows Mobile 5.0 powered. I&#8217;m on RC1 (build 5600) at the moment, and I can&#8217;t even get WM5 devices to synchronize with Vista.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the December CTP, Microsoft has endlessly promised a code-complete ActiveSync replacement for Windows Vista, but here we are at Release Candidate number 1, the thing that supposedly does the trick, and it still doesn&#8217;t work. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it&#8217;s improved quite a bit since; it actually sees the device, and you can browse the PDA&#8217;s ROM drive and move files between the systems, you can synchronize it with Windows Media Player, but I&#8217;m sorry to say, it&#8217;s nowhere near the <a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/WMDC_addremoveprogs.png.PNG\">ActiveSync replacement<\/a> they promised us.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t install programs, I can&#8217;t synchronize contacts, and I can&#8217;t even upgrade the firmware that <em>finally<\/em> came out for my (ill-advised purchase, the) Torq P120. It demands that I have some sort of ActiveSync installed, but guess what? Microsoft decided <em>its version<\/em> of Vista&#8217;s ActiveSync was good enough, and now I&#8217;m not even allowed to install ActiveSync!<\/p>\n<p>RC1 may be great, but Microsoft has serious issues that need to be addressed. You can call Vista code-complete if you like, but that&#8217;s admitting a serious failure. RC1 is really fast and really stable, but things like this shouldn&#8217;t have gone this far without being addressed. And people <em>did<\/em> complain. The newsgroups were filled with &#8220;How do I synchronize my PPC with Windows Vista&#8221; threads throughout the entire beta program, but apparently, no one cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600, the one we didn&#8217;t get a chance to review..) is just great. It runs really fast, even faster than XP on this Centrino Duo with 2GB of memory. It&#8217;s stable (I haven&#8217;t restarted since installing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/will-vista-ever-synchronize-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,53],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-pdas","tag-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-40","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}