Google Syncing

[Oni]

Hello all. I think Microsoft needs to be punished for its lack of vision. I think its time we stepped away from the idea of activesync and treated our PocketPCs as actual PCs, not as surrogate devices that require specialist synicng. I use google as a central point to store email, calendar and contacts. With that i can get at my contacts anywhere and on any machine i have which supports CSV import. Clearly, Microsoft never even considered any kind of syncing with the exception of their exchange server. No good to me when i use a mac and two linux boxes.

Im wondering, does anyone have any thoughts at to how we can manage all the personal information we have? At one level something that managed to Diff CSV files would be acceptable. Since Google can import and export these, that migh work reasonably well. Of course, we'd probably need some kind of scripting langauage on our PocketPCs. Has anyone seen anything like that?

[fincsi]

I was wondering about the same thing. It might work, to make a simple program, that can read the contacts database, and save them as vCard and/or CSV. Then on your normal PC you can use a similar program, that can manage this data...

[GliTCH82]

well, not to defeind microsoft, but couldn't google have made some kind of activesync plugin to do this?, i mean, i couldn't agree more that the platform should have been more open, but microsoft couldn't possibly cover every third party PIM system out there. surely, google could have (and probably still could) create some kind of extension that would allow these pocket PCs to sync with their PIM platform. if anything, it would help promote their product and i for one would be more inclined to switch over.

[GliTCH82]

as an example, yahoo calendar allows syncing with Palm and Outlook. it looks like it's up to google to choose whether they want to support us.

[bnycastro]

If MS allowed PPC users to sync with other services they would loose a lot of money as no one would buy exchange or outlook [afaik each cd included with ppc's have outlook 2002 so the oem pay for it naturally]. So it doesn't make good business sense to open up syncing. Anyway I hope you find your solution.