Microsoft takes aim at Blackberry with mobile email
Microsoft will give away software upgrades to give Outlook users access to wireless corporate email on mobile devices, in a move that could unseat mobile email leader Blackberry from Research In Motion.
The Redmond, Washington-based software giant will make free upgrades available for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 that will lift business email and other Outlook data from corporate computers, and automatically send it to mobile phones running on Microsoft Windows software.
The upgrade of Exchange Server, available in the fourth quarter, will also benefit users of other mobile devices, because handset behemoth Nokia and smartphone software maker Symbian have recently started licensing ActiveSync software that can synchronize the email software on their devices to Microsoft Exchange servers.
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Exchange network administrators will be able to remotely manage information on handheld devices loaded with WM5.
"The two products, called Direct Mobile Messaging for Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2, and Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5, allow administrators to lay down security policies and load software to remote devices. For example, a company can wipe out the software on a Pocket PC device after three failed login attempts, which might indicate the device is lost or stolen."
No word yet if they will be able to backup your device remotely to the network, or if you will still be responsible for that.
Could be time to get rid of all those mp3s, videos and personal items, if this is the case!
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So I guess we will have another court battle and that at the end Microsoft will buy RIM.
That would not surprise me. A former coworker is interning at Microsoft for the summer. With the department she is in, it is quite obvious Microsoft is always aquiring a company to either gain the R&D the other company already did, or to try and eliminate any possible threat down the road to their market share.
No pay no say you know. Your PDA is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands, and if it's their bandwith, their risk, it seems totally reasonable to expect this. Look at it another way, if they didn't build it in, do you think any serious IT manager is going to let you loose on their system. I don't think so. M$ would also have been crucified for being lax on security - again.
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No pay no say you know. Your PDA is a lethal weapon in the wrong hands, and if it's their bandwith, their risk, it seems totally reasonable to expect this. Look at it another way, if they didn't build it in, do you think any serious IT manager is going to let you loose on their system. I don't think so. M$ would also have been crucified for being lax on security - again.
Anyone who could accidently get a virus from their home computer (or any computer), to their pda (where it would not spread on its own, you would have to put the virus there), and then into a corporate network, would win an award. You would have to TRY to cause any kind of trouble with a PDA access via an email server.
This a huge buzzword surrounding the upcoming Windows Mobile 5.0, but I can't seem to find a satisfactory answer to what it means. I would appreciate any enlightenment on the topic.
This seems like the most persuasive argument so far to upgrade to WM5... as long as your server is running Exchange 2003! I use web-browsing to access my email / outlook date on my Axim, and having push-email which would synchronise outlook date would be a great advantage.
Presumably you could set this up to push email automatically when wi-fi enabled, and then pull the email when BT / GSM enabled?
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