Of significant use for users of older, serial based devices was the inclusion of a feature that would automatically adjust the baud rate of the host computers serial port to match that selected on the mobile device. 3.1 also improved on security issues and synchronisation performance. Although still remaining unreliable, the process was greatly improved. The most highlighted improvement of 3.1's evolution was the work on USB synchronisation and the inclusion of the AvantGo host client. The original release build number was superseded by and later both of which continued to build on the features of the original desktop software. ActiveSync 3.0 was replaced on the 24th November 1999 with version 3.1. Any user, under any platform could be up and running in as few as 6 mouse clicks. ActiveSync removed the association between RAS/DUN and the Windows CE connection stack - solving the biggest headache encountered by consumers of H/PC Explorer and Windows CE Services. Developed specifically around user feedback on the failings of Windows CE Services, ActiveSync 3.0 was to be faster, simplified, and vastly improved. This document describes ActiveSync Version 3.xĪctiveSync 3.0 (3.) was released on August 16th 1999 and heralded Microsoft's first real proactive effort to get its sync client 'right by the end user'. Microsoft ActiveSync is not compatible with Microsoft Windows CE Version 1.0x due to the vast differences between communication methods, and file formats. Windows CE Services and the file synchronisation application ActiveSync into one desktop application, Microsoft ActiveSync. In July 1999, with the original PC ActiveSync release, ActiveSync. However the desktop software that they produced was also made compatible with Windows CE 2.0, 2.01, 2.1, 2.11 and 2.12.

This primarily was focused towards Microsoft Windows CE 3 and - in version 3.7 and above - CE 4. Since the initial release of Microsoft Windows CE 2, Microsoft have undertaken new strategies in unified product integration.

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