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Mobile browsing
Microsoft claimed that Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile 6 was a big improvement on previous versions. That wouldn't be hard, seeing as earlier versions were roughly equivalent to most of IE3/4.
Unfortunately, IE for WM6 isn't that much better. Quite a few websites I visit render poorly on it.
I'm a big fan of Mozilla, and they've produced Minimo. This runs like a very slow dog and seems to crash more often than not. Hopefully it will improve over time, but I'm not sure that there's much (if any) further development going on.
I tried Opera's mobile browser, which looked really good. It costs money however, and I'd prefer not to pay for a web browser.
Today I came across Skyfire. It's a free browser, initially for Windows Mobile 5 & 6. It's still in Beta, and for some weird reason, while you can sign up for the beta, if you don't have a US telephone number, you can't get it at the moment. A bit strange as they do say it will work over WiFi too.
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Windows Server 2008 released and Vista SP1 (almost)
I see that Windows Server 2008 has been released, and downloads are now on the Connect site.
Vista Service Pack 1 as also been finalised, but it appears it won't be available for download until Mid-March.
Looks like we need to be a bit more patient, unless they do make it available on the Connect site prior to the regular public Microsoft Downloads site.
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What password?
Why did my phone's alarm either not go off or wake me up on time this morning?
And more importantly, when I turned it on, why was it asking me for a password? (I have a PIN on my SIM card, but this wasn't prompting me for that)
After trying every password it could possibly be, I did a reset, and fortunately, the password prompt went away.
So either there's a weird bug in Windows Mobile 6, I set a password on it in my sleep (unlikely), or someone else did this (also unlikely).
The last thing I did before I turned out the light was to confirm that the alarm was set (so there wasn't a password set then), so this is very odd.