Microsoft Pushes Farther Into Wireless E-Mail
Free upgrades offered to Windows Mobile 5.0 users to enable Direct Push functionality.
Microsoft extended its reach into wireless push e-mail technology this week by naming four carriers and four new Windows Mobile-based smart phones and handhelds that will support its Direct Push technology.
In the announcement from the 3GSM World Conference 2006 in Barcelona, the carriers said that they will provide free upgrades to devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) by Microsoft to enable the Direct Push functionality.
Reacting to the announcement today, several business users and IT managers of wireless e-mail from Research In Motion said that they welcomed Microsoft's progress into wireless e-mail, given NTP's ongoing patent lawsuit against RIM's BlackBerry wireless e-mail service, the leader in the field.
But users and analysts also said that Windows Mobile 5.0 must improve to be widely adopted by end users.
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