emergent

Originally Posted by madmunki

They can, sure. MSFT wants to control everything. I see this working like so: A PDA manufacture writes drivers for the Mobile OS, they send them to MSFT, and thru something like WindowsUpdate.com they get pushed to your device. Doing it this way prevents WM5 rom images being hacked and pirated on unpaid devices. Remember the big Dell fiasco with people hacking the PPC03 os rom and installing it on their dell PPC02 os? I am sure the WM 2005 MSFT gave to their Mobility MVPs runs in a emulator.

I don't think that is correct since WM5 CD came with my x50v for free. i have not touched yet untill I'm confident my apps will work on it or untill all my apps have a patch or something. I believe you can buy the cd from Dell. I do not know if it requires an Axim or what, but it should work on all axims or at least any xscale platform.

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The only reason I still have my home PC is to sync my PDA. Otherwise what good is it for? I give it 10 years at most and the home PC will be replaced with the Pocket PC.

Axim x50v
Sena case for Axim x50v
Sandisk 1GB SD Card
Kingston 1GB SD Card
Kingston 1GB CF Card
Over 2.5GB of Pocket PC Software and never paid a dime (get friends and family to by them for me... SUCKERS!
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Kraven

Originally Posted by emergent

I don't think that is correct since WM5 CD came with my x50v for free.

Woah, you have the OS already???

emergent

Yeah i have it on cd-rom straight from dell. I think about installing it all the time but then I get scared. Granted I've only had it for a few weeks now but still.

*EDIT* I thought a cd that was sent to me with my X50v was the WM5, I was mistaken. It will be automatically shipped to me in October when it is released from MS. My bad!

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The only reason I still have my home PC is to sync my PDA. Otherwise what good is it for? I give it 10 years at most and the home PC will be replaced with the Pocket PC.

Axim x50v
Sena case for Axim x50v
Sandisk 1GB SD Card
Kingston 1GB SD Card
Kingston 1GB CF Card
Over 2.5GB of Pocket PC Software and never paid a dime (get friends and family to by them for me... SUCKERS!
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Driftless

That's hard to believe since it isn't for sale yet...