Comments on: Microsoft, Xandros target mobile e-mail

The companies extend their partnership to help customers deploy Windows Mobile e-mail on open-source mail servers.

[Penguinisto]

Thanks, but no thanks.

Two reasons:

1) "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" - just ask the Plays For Sure partners, Sun (Java), and a whole host of companies, big and small... MSFT's own history makes it impossible to trust them on any business partnership level.

2) Can be summed up as: http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/

3) We (as in, "the planet") already has full standards-compliant mobile email w/o having to resort to a proprietary solution. Mobile + WiFi suffices nicely... just ask Apple (iPhone).

/P

[KTLA_knew]

"the planet"

Assuming you're on the same planet as the rest of us (not a certainty by any stretch), I think you should probably check what the VAST majority of folks use for the email on mobile devices.

I think once you subtract out Exchange, Blackberry, and your "non-smartphone" basic text email clients, you'll be left with tumbleweeds and a VERY small fraction of mobile email users.

The deal in question is targeted at THAT planet, not to make any assumptions about YOUR planet, by any means.

(Mail over WiFi??? WiFi isn't even CLOSE to the ubiquitous connection one needs for reliable email. But that's not the point here.)

[CJLake]

iPhone is a toy

Your iPhone is nothing but a Mac fanboy consumer-level toy. Microsoft and their products are the defacto standard in desktop and mobile computing, and the fact is that proprietary solutions are many times the best supported in the industry. It's support that determines the success or non of computing products, not "standards".