Microsoft My Phone now live, in screenshots
By Nilay Patel 
posted Feb 17th 2009 12:41PM
posted Feb 17th 2009 12:41PM
We won't see Windows Mobile 6.5 or Windows Marketplace until the end of the year, but Microsoft isn't hoarding all the goodies -- the My Phone sync service went live in beta last night, and users who pre-registered got invites. Go on and sign up and let us know what you think, or just hit the link and check it all out in screenshots.[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Why does Microsoft seem to hate their very own Notes feature? Outlook has five main "modules", if you want to call them that: Email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes. Working with Outlook for what feels like my entire life, I've gotten used to using all of these in my daily workflow. Strangely though, you still (to this day!) can't wirelessly synchronize Notes -- only wired ActiveSync does it. Why? And apparently 6.5 continues to ignore this? What's the deal?
MS is known for that. i too use the Notes feature on my Treo (never found Tasks very useful personally) and my Active Sync hates it. most of the time they dont even sync.....and now that i think about it, my Zune rarely syncs correctly either, it leaves stuff off the device all the time even after i tell it to add it. maybe MS just doesn't know how to do Sync programs.
contact the beta team if there's any contact info...my friend lives in redmond and works for MS and suggested that i do it when i was having some problems w/ windows live mesh. after exchanging a couple emails, they actually called me one day, and too control of my comp via remote desktop to try n' figure out what it was. I guess when something is in beta they'll do everything they can to collect info, bugs, feedback to make it better.
Of all the pieces of the Outlook world, a simple text file has got to be DEAD simple to synchronize. There's clearly something else going on here. It's not a matter of configuration, Windows Mobile just flat out doesn't support wireless sync of Notes. Ballmer and like five other people are laughing right now and the rest of the (WinMo using) world is left in the dark.