Having been in the industry for twenty-odd years and utilized Stream as a resource, it’s fascinating to see applications reach newly developed platforms yet many of the challenges are re-occurring. Not only the distribution channel but the inherent asset management challenges many F500 companies will face – so on that note I agree with Zach.

Say what you will about Microsoft but they are a huge market enabler and will do it again with Windows Mobile. The difference relative to the laptop era is market adoption rates are radically faster and so are development timeframes.

One of the fundamental flaw in WinMo, that Wade brings up, is indeed that they are highly powerful. This is a double edged sword in that they are fully capable of being secure, remotely controlled devices… just as much as they are able to be cracked into insecure remotely controlled devices.

I hope that EM can bring WinMo beyond this issue and give ISOs a better peace of mind.

Incidentally, I was once told by an IT support member that if I wanted company email I needed a blackberry- I was told that Windows Mobile “would not work”. But I’m guessing this was just to deter users because WinMo couldn’t be remotely controlled by internal IT… so instead I just entered in the publicly shared webmail info and had full active sync running anyway… If I can crack it that easily, I guess others can too.