SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
Well, it's official. As Microsoft-Watch notes, "Another Vista feature bites the dust":
"Microsoft officials decided the week of June 5 to cut another feature from Windows Vista: PC-to-PC synchronization.
Microsoft officials said they cut the feature due to quality concerns, but the functionality is still "something we plan to deliver to our customers in the future," according to a company spokeswoman."
In my eyes, this is not just any feature. In a world where even mainstream PC users have and/or use multiple PCs daily in their homes and at work, the PC-to-PC synchronization feature becomes ever more important. And that's not to mention the increasing number of non-PC devices with Windows based operating systems, including cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, tablets, and ultra-portable PCs (UMPCs).
It'll be increasingly important for users to be able to keep their data straight and easily shared amongst this growing morass of devices and file folders.
That's the reason I was excited last year, when Microsoft announced it was buying FolderShare, a start-up out of Texas that had started to provide this very needed feature.
I'm assuming that the delayed feature in Windows Vista is based on the FolderShare technology, although I don't have verification of that just yet.
In any case, here's hoping that Microsoft gets the feature up to snuff and then makes it available in a future patch to Windows Vista.
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