Re: newbie question about axim

<rant>
Yeah, that royally ticked me off. They claim it's for security reasons. So
the technology exists to transmit my credit card and banking information
around wirelessly, but not to sync my e-mail? Something's not right. Now
admittedly, it may be easier to turn off the functionality rather than make
it secure, but that seems to be a pretty cheesy design decision. Or easier
to turn it off entirely, rather than allowing the use of a security
policy... I mean, really now, how difficult is it to have ActiveSync on the
desktop check a domain security policy to see if it's ok to transmit the
information wirelessly? And if the network-nazi's want to turn that
functionality off to protect their user's precious e-mail, they can do that.
Then if I don't care if someone reads my personal e-mails as I sync with my
home account, that's fine too. But NOOO, they have to just turn it off
globally...
</rant>

Clint

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They, oddly, do claim that. Seems like a decision I should make, not MS.
"Clint" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Also, MS claims that removing the WiFi ActiveSync was a feature, so it
seems doubtful they'd fix it in a patch. I'm not expecting to see this
back till whatever the next generation is, if ever.

Clint

"journey" <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:40:05 GMT, "Clint" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bluetooth sync'ing has been in since 4.0 was released, I believe,
although I
never installed 4.0 (just 4.1). Worked for me, don't know if other
people
have had issues.

Clint

Hi Clint, I did some web searches and you're right. I think I am
confusing bluetooth sync vs. wifi sync. There are posts saying that
wifi sync only works for Activesync 3.x. I believe that is what is
supposedly restored in the 4.2 beta. Thanks for clearing that up.






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