[dba-Tech] Microsoft Windows 7 cell phones are having problems

I have no idea... I just about got one but there was this super deal just
before Christmas... 8-)

Jim



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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:12 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Windows 7 cell phones are having problems

Are Blackberry users still stuck with Outlook?

PB

On 1/11/2011 10:12 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Gustav:
>
> Right now nobody knows. If it is a bad design or some configuration issue
> that is easily made but not understood by the users, that is a problem. At
> the time of the news release no one, at least in or related to press had
any
> idea what this data flow was for.
>
> I would suspect on going updates as Microsoft has always done, on PC,
> totally automated except that does not really work on a cell phone device
> where every byte transferred cost money.
>
> I suspect it is minor issue but the amount of bad press is major and just
> what Microsoft doesn't need... especially as iPhone is just getting more
> established and Android is cleaning up.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:37 AM
> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft Windows 7 cell phones are having
problems
>
> Hi Jim
>
> As the article mentions "some" not "all", the extra data transmitted by
some
> phones is probably due to some misconfiguration or misbehaviour of a kind.
> It should be relatively easy to track down.
>
> /gustav
>
>
>>>> accessd at shaw.ca 11-01-2011 06:09>>>
> According to an email sent to me this evening, it appears that the windows
> cell phone operating system is causing and having some problems.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12152517
>
> This might be the final death knell to MS's aspirations of getting a firm
> foot hold in the growing cell phone market.
>
> The question is whether this is a system bug or a design feature...
>
> Jim
>
>
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