Why is Windows Mobile Device support in Vista so poor?
I expected a far more seamless experience with Vista. The Windows Mobile Device Centre however, which was released as a beta after Vista hit the ground, is... annoying. Syncing is hit and miss over USB, my primary form of connection.
Is there a good reason Vista has to search for device drivers each time I plug in my HTC Apache and Treo 750V? Surely there should be some smarts to recognise frequently-connected devices and get them talking to the host system faster?
There's some progress though: the issue of disappearing appointments in Vista while they're there in XP seems to have been resolved with the 6.1 WMDC upgrade, thank goodness. The upgrade has also sorted out the problem with not being able to sync IMAP and Exchange mail in Vista, although it works in XP SP2.
However, I'm getting a lot of duplicate contacts in my address book that require manual weeding out when syncing with Vista. While I appreciate a conservative approach to deleting data, a pop-up dialogue spotting duplicates would be the thing.
Also, Microsoft needs to learn that people have multiple devices. That's right, many gadgets that they want to plug in at the same time. WMDC can't handle both my phones being plugged into the host computer over USB. Why not?
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Comment by taniwha, on 10-Jun-2007 23:33
i'm curious - how does HotSync fare on Vista?
Comment by Thrash Cardiom, on 11-Jun-2007 06:55
I have a Treo 700wx which has sync problems with XP and Exchange 2003. It NEVER syncs the first time via USB. I always have to reconnect. It often fails to sync randomly through the day. I did have a harrier syncing through the same PC and it had occasional problem but nothing like I'm experiencing with the Treo.
Comment by Maorry, on 11-Jun-2007 11:18
I downloaded and installed the latest Nokia PC Suite (6.83.14.1) last week and it seems to run as well on my vista computer as it does on XP and handles adds/changes/deletes no problem at all.
Comment by freitasm, on 11-Jun-2007 13:44
Have Palm released Palm Desktop for Vista yet? I thought they were having problems with that as well...
Comment by freitasm, on 11-Jun-2007 14:52
And more to amuse you...
Comment by Filipe, on 12-Jun-2007 03:00
Windows Mobile Device support in Vista is only poor to ignorants who are not aware that Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 was released, fixing these problems.
Comment by Enzo, on 10-Jul-2007 23:31
I´ve got an axim with WM2003, Vista 64 ultimate and Outlook 2007. They don´t work with WMDC 6.1. Even not, if my PDA is in the cradle while configuring. I have always the same problem: Axim is recognized, connects for 15 seconds and then connection will be broken before synchronizing...
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Comment by brupub, on 10-Jun-2007 19:13
Juha:
I still have many of those problems with XP SP2 and WinServer2000
SP4. I believe 98% lies in the poor ActiveSync.
I really don't think Microsoft will every get a synchronization app to work well. I had Palm products for so many years, of course with Palm to work flawlessly it took the Chapura Add-ons.
Larry