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egypturnashMy god, I just discovered how horribly and fundamentally broken Microsoft ActiveSync is. By default it doesn't back anything up on your computer. At all. So when you leave your PDA out (we have one, and Rik's been fooling with it) with the power disconnected and it forgets everything, it's all gone! Transparent, automatic backup is the innovation that pretty much made PDAs semi-useful devices; leave it to Microsoft to make a switch for it, turn it off by default, and hide it in a completely obscure place in the sync client's interface!
I'm not touching this thing any more; I'm gonna stay in the world where computers Just Work, by and large. Where if I decided I needed a PDA again (and I've pretty much decided I don't) and recharged mine, every single piece of data that was on it would be restored once I plugged it into my computer, without me having to ever have made a decision to back it up in the first place.
Every damn time I try to fiddle with a Windows machine, it's like this. The defaults are stupid and the really important switches are hidden away. How the hell do you people stand it?
I'm not touching this thing any more; I'm gonna stay in the world where computers Just Work, by and large. Where if I decided I needed a PDA again (and I've pretty much decided I don't) and recharged mine, every single piece of data that was on it would be restored once I plugged it into my computer, without me having to ever have made a decision to back it up in the first place.
Every damn time I try to fiddle with a Windows machine, it's like this. The defaults are stupid and the really important switches are hidden away. How the hell do you people stand it?