Windows Vista Beta 2 Mobile Device Center
June 17th, 2006 Jason Dunn
If you’re beta testing Windows Vista, this update will interest you:
“Tonight, a update to Windows Vista Beta 2’s Windows Mobile Device Center has gone up on Windows Update. This update gives the Windows Mobile Device Center full capability of syncing your Windows Mobile Phone or Device with Outlook. It even supports OneNote 2007 Mobile as well. It offers an impressive UI arrangement giving you full access to syncing your device and accessing its files. It even tells you how many images you have on your Mobile Device when you move your mouse over “Photos, Music and Video”. I’m certainly impressed with this update and expect it will only get better here on out.”
There’s been a lot of confusion around Vista, the Mobile Device Center, and ActiveSync - and I can’t say that I understand it fully myself. I believe what’s going to happen is that ActiveSync as a stand-alone client is going to fade away, and every copy of Windows Vista is going to have this Mobile Device Center built in. It will be used for everything from MP3 players to Pocket PCs - and the really impressive part is that if every install of Vista will have it, that means you can conceivably sync your Windows Mobile device with any computer running Windows Vista. That’s something I’ve wanted to see happen for a long time, and it’s finally going to be a reality - if I understand all this properly. 
I’m running a beta of Vista myself, but I haven’t booted it up in a couple of weeks, nor have I installed this update. Have you? How’s it working for you so far?
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1. hummeriah | June 17th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
thanks for this, first I have heard of it, but I have been waiting for a Vista/syncing solution since downloading the beta. looking forward to more from this site!