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Our push is not really a push - says Microsoft December 03, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. It "feels" like a push email so that's why Microsoft called it "Push Direct" but it is not really a push - explains Jason Langridge from Microsoft UK: 
(on image above: Jason Langridge looks up - on Windows Mobile phone - a schedule of his co-worker to find appointment) With this approach we remove the need for a relay or Network Operations Centre (NOC) avoiding the need to relay data and also add cost to the overall solution. We still however provide the exact same experience of other mobile email 'push' solutions. There seems to be lots of mis-conceptions out there that are being circulated by various parties about this architecture - I've outlined a few of them below. 1) Scalability - I've seen some of our competitors make false statements about the fact that our solution will massively impact the network and firewall and it won't scale. This is totally wrong [...] 2) Having an incoming firewall port is bad - Opening port 443 (SSL) is actually not such a big deal that some of our competitors make out. Port 443 is the same port used for Outlook Web Access and RPC/HTTPS - a large majority of customers already provide this service over the Internet or through a private APN/VPN. There will always be a small majority who won't want to do this - but it is a small majority. 3) We don't use SMS (short message service) anymore!!! - The previous Always Up to Date solution (AUTD) used SMS as a trigger mechanism - we use IP in the Exchange 2003 SP2 solution - not SMS - a few people still seem to think we use SMS - we don't. To read more, including links and further explanations, click here. While for consumers the most important change in Windows Mobile 5.0 will be stereo audio over Bluetooth (A2DP) the biggest most important new feature of Windows Mobile 5.0 for enterprises, companies and corporations will be "push e-mail" - that has chances to shake up whole market, including RIM BlackBerry's domination and Nokia's weakish attempts to enter this market. While users of Windows Mobile 5.0 may be happy that native support for push e-mail comes at last to their phones, and it requires no monthly fees - just a MS Exchange Server in company premises or hosted - they may be a bit dismayed after they will learn that this new push e-mail is not really a push...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]
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