Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 SDK Released

cd_Csc writes "Microsoft's long awaited Smartphone 2003 SDK was released today. This free download is critical milestone for the Smartphone platform. For the first time, developers are now able to use the .NET Compact Framework to write Smartphone applications using Visual Studio. At Smartphone Thoughts, we have listed the details of what's new in the 2003 SDK along with some screen shots of enhancements to the Inbox and Internet Explorer applications."

Comments

Re:despite what everyone say..

[Phekko]

Just how exactly is this more amazing than, say, the Palm OS SDK that has already been out for a while?

Re:despite what everyone say..

[Michael Iatrou]

If MS is the one who brings developers tools to develop tomorrows world, I prefer to find another job...

Yawn

[GomezAdams]

Just more microsnot crap I'll do without. In short - who cares? Only mindless M$ droids that let Bill the Bandit do their thinking for them. There are already good, stable, alternative embedded tools for phones and none have the security flaws that using microsnot will bring.

Long awaited

[ultrabot]

Microsoft's long awaited Smartphone 2003 SDK was released today.

Not a slashdot regular, are you?

Really, it is critical that Smartphone not be allowed to succeed. We don't want Microsoft gaining a significant market share there also. If they happen to get something like 20%, they will start "integrating" a lot of proprietary interop stuff to Windows and aggressively wrestle up the marketshare. MSFT Windows/Offics business is winding down, so Smartphones are an excellent migration route because people actually buy new phones all the time.

Symbian is not all that "open", but they have to support public standards, because they have no choice. Do the industry a favor and boycott handsets that run SmartPhone. I don't know how much it is going to help though, because MSFT has endless stash of money to throw to these "strategic" projects. They are not going to drop out even if they sold zero licenses in 10 year.

Obviously multiple platforms means competition, which brings a little bit energy to the market. Smartphones will be a huge thing in a few years, so platform developers can't really be sitting on their asses for long.

Re:Long awaited

[tealover]

Really, it is critical that Smartphone not be allowed to succeed.

Says who? I don't make my purchasing decisions based on whether the manufacturer holds a monopoly. I base it on whether the product gives me what I want.

Not all monopolies are bad. This type of knee-jerk reaction to anything Microsoft is juvenile and self-defeating.

Re:Cut down on MS crap please, it's not interestin

[grug0]

I'm sorry but Slashdot is "News for Nerds" not "News for Fanatics". Microsoft, like it or not, controls a large amount of the market and their technologies should be reported on like any other companies.

Re:DDOS

[glesga_kiss]

Microsoft or not, the complexity of the new phones that are around now means that some cracks are likely to happen. They have an IP address, so are suseptible to the usual risks, as well as phone based attacks. Buffer-overflow in the 160-char SMS limit? I wonder who will be the first to fall due to that one!?!

Some networks have choosen to only run signed code, unfortunatly this means you can't run your own code. Which defeats the point of having a smartphone!!

Re:DDOS

[Ryosen]

I could be wrong about this but here is my understanding, at least where Sprint is concerned. Yes, the phone has an IP address but they are on an internal subnet belonging to the carrier. All surfing is done through a proxy, thus the phone is not visible to the outside Internet for random attacks. On my Sanyo 4900, applications (the browser being on of them) do not have any access to the phone book, nor the dialing function. As long as the phone manufacturers continue to maintain this level of data separation, the worm scenario is not likely.

You may now proceed with the obligatory MS-bashing and speculating how Outlook for Smartphones(tm) will obliterate this protection level and allow VBScript full access to the address book and dialer. Cause you know it's coming! ;)