WM5

[TomasNM]

I was wondering when I have upgraded my Himalaya with Magneto. Too many bugs made me worry. The 2 biggest was:

-ActiveSync wasn't working...
-Too many applications that I was using with Diamond cannot install...

Can anyone explain me WHY is this incompatibility there? I don't understand WHY Magneto is not able to install/run applications that on 2003SE are working perfectly. :( :( :(

Thanx.

[TofClock]

oh oh oh ...

imagine , you've got a pc , with windows98 and a lot of software installed ....

and , you install windows xp sp2 on your pc , but you install all the old soft you have installed on your windows 98 ...

Do you really think that all your old soft run fine with win xp sp2 ???

Nooooo

it's the same with wm2005

wm2005 is a new os , and like with news , some old softwares don't run anymore

[TomasNM]

...and I know that's normal. This is a wrong example,because all the old PC soft that I have in my comp works fine in XP. Upgraded from '98. In XP you can run also new MS-DOS apps. WM2k3se/2k5 is not like 98/XP in PC.
Ex:Intellipad is not working in 2003,but only in 2003se! Therefore I thing,that's relatively new software. However this soft is not running in Magneto. I say it once again. WHY this uncompatibility? It's a wrong step for Microsoft.

[Rudegar]

hard to say for sure who is to blame

if it's the 3th party programmers who are cutting corners and making hacks in their programs and those hacks then are not compatible when ms make their os more "stable" or deside to inforce the rules more strictly

or if it's ms who change the stk and how things are don in the os because they feel like it and dont care if it means that 3th party programs will have issues

or if ms are doing the 3th party programmers a favour by making sure they can sell upgrades / new versions of their software

[cgrillo]

It's called MONEY.

If you upgrade your OS then in some (not all cases) you have to upgrade the software - and that costs you money.

Their viewpoint is:-
Why should the companies who write the software for one OS in particular have to cough up to make changes to that software when a new OS version comes out?
It is hard to make software forward compatible when you don't know what/when it is coming out.

Upgrade OS at your own peril.

[TomasNM]

A little bit crazy...
MS WinXP supports the applications for Win98...
Then why not the same issue by mobile devices?
I don't understand coz it is not too much apps designated especially for Magneto. All the old software(even though it is very good) is then unusable...[/quote]

[IMate->WM2k5]

I was wondering when I have upgraded my Himalaya with Magneto. Too many bugs made me worry. The 2 biggest was:

-ActiveSync wasn't working...
-Too many applications that I was using with Diamond cannot install...

Can anyone explain me WHY is this incompatibility there? I don't understand WHY Magneto is not able to install/run applications that on 2003SE are working perfectly. :( :( :(

Thanx.
Hi,

ActiveSync works perfectly in all possible ways: over irda, over bluetooth and over cradle (usb/com)

Did you install ActiveSync4???

[TomasNM]

Yes I did it. I have tried up to 3 hours,have readed all the forums,did everything that's possible and no success to connection. I don't have IrDA in my laptop,but have built-in Bluetooth. No success also. Yes I couldn't connect that time via BT also with 2003se which works perfectly. Now I can connect via BT to AS,therefore it can't be so big problem. But the non-working applications made me worry. Shame... So good OS is the Magneto,but useless...

[egzthunder1]

First things first, remember that this version of Magneto that you used to upgrade is not final. Hence, it will have bugs and compatibility issues. This is why most developers don't suggest people to install anything that is not final unless they absolutely need to.
As for the Windows XP vs 98 part of the thread, even though it is true that some 98 applications run flawlwessly on XP, you gotta remember what happened when XP first came out. Most (if not all) software and hardware to be installed warned you that you may have problems if you proceeded with the installation. Service packs and Windows updates knocked most of those issues out, which is why most 98 applications now run on XP. I hope this clarifies things

[TomasNM]

Thanx. I didn't watch the PCOS Windows evolution and therefore I didn't know,that XP was the same example as Magneto. If the final version of WM 5.0 will be as the WinXP and the old-applications friendly,then it will be very good piece of software.