[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Re: Introducing The Missing Sync for Palm OS, v5.0

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 11/1/05 8:27 PM, "Eric Ullman" <eullman at markspace.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, Microsoft's support for Sync Services has been delayed,
> though why, we're not certain.

You've been told several times it was due to bugs in OS 10.4.1 which was the
OS version in existence when Microsoft was building their SP2 for Office
2004, the upgrade that was indeed released in the summer and that was
originally meant to include SyncServices capability. Microsoft has said that
Apple was working with them to fix these bugs. If OS 10.4.3 has fixed those
bugs, you can expect that Microsoft will commence building a new update to
Entourage now to implement SyncServices. Microsoft has recently reiterated
that they _will_ be releasing a patch for Entourage 2004, as promised, to do
so. It will not be delayed until the next major version of Office.

You can surely understand that with a suite of products the size of Office -
over a million lines of code - they cannot release updates every few weeks.
So many things are contingent on one another that any significant update is
a major undertaking and has to be fit in their work schedules, which must
surely also be focused on all the changes they have to make for the next
version of Office - switching to Xcode, building for MacIntels, new Office
12 file formats, new UI. etc. etc. SyncServices for Entourage 2004 will
come, nonetheless. It's good to know that Missing Sync is ready for that.
(Or is it? I thought you were just beginning your own work on SyncServices.
Is it already incorporated into this new version 5.0? Or is Microsoft's
delay actually welcome to you?)

-- 
Paul Berkowitz