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Originally Posted by surur
.NET CF allows easy code portability, and this will make WM5 PDA's great for the vertical market. We should also see a lot more desktop software (like skype etc) being ported to handheld devices.
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Well, not as easy as it sounds. .NET CF is a subset, and programmers still have to deal with working in a constrained hardware environment. Most programmers working at the .NET level are not accustomed to doing serious optimizations for either size or speed.
That said, the framework makes app development a heck of a lot easier than it was with the Embedded Tools sets, or on the Palm OS.
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Originally Posted by surur
There are still supporters of alternate platforms that contend that MS is planning to drop WM and replace it with cut-down Vista. At least this news will give them pause for thought.
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I never believed that; Vista's recommended hardware requirements describe a computer you couldn't buy just two months ago. I read a lot about the early development of Windows CE, and the early iterations were really an attempt to replicate the entire Win32 API set. Big disaster, and they learned from that failure.
What they are definitely focusing on will be distributed applications and leveraging near-ubiquitous network connectivity. That's the big .NET/Windows Live/Office Live/whatever they announce next week push. Push e-mail from an Exchange Server is just scratching the surface.