I was at the San Diego airport today, i arrived early so I could take a conference call with our friends at Toshiba. I had my smartphone with my BT earpiece and I sat there for an hour looking like a nerd talking away and getting my job done. I was scanning my email on my phone and saw that I needed to pop open my Tablet, connect to the web and respond to a few emails that needed my attention. 55 minutes later I finally connected and was ready to proceed but at that point the plane was loading so I couldn’t answer the important emails.

Now, I could have responded on my smartphone but I needed access to some Excel documents back on my server at the shop in Redmond. 55 minutes to detect the wireless provider in the airport, connect, authenticate, wait for my antivirus software to update (it hogs the pipe when it’s downloading), open up Outlook, wait for it to connect, instantiate a VPN session, wait for it to connect, authenticate on my server, get access to my box in my office and pull the file down. 55 minutes…

As the world goes mobile we as developers have to start considering how to build truly first class mobile pc applications. I realize this starts at the platform level and Windows Vista is the platform to empower us. If you haven’t contemplated the mobile aspects of your pc application, please check out what Windows Vista can do for you and your customers. Help me get my 55 minutes back J  http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista

/frank

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