Microsoft has in the past made fantastic PDA products. I've owned and used 3 generations of them.But the current crop is just awful. The devices themselves are

Microsoft has in the past made fantastic PDA products. I've owned and used 3 generations of them.But the current crop is just awful. The devices themselves are so-so. The fatal flaw is their synchronization. For several years now, the only change to Microsoft's ActiveSync application has been to gradually remove features -- and yes, I do mean this literally. When I bought my most recent device, the top-of-the-line iPAQ (that isn't a phone), it came with WM6 and required an upgrade to the most recent ActiveSync, forcing me to abandon the features I'd kept for years just by not upgrading. But now, on both the computers I (attempt to) connect it with, ActiveSync will not work at all. Several hours of trouble-shooting haven't gotten me anywhere. Even if my experience is an aberration, the fact that ActiveSync does not (and, according to MS, will not) support Outlook 64-bit can only mean that they already view the platform as a dead end. If Microsoft won't support ActiveSync on what they claim to be their flagship communication application, how can I possibly invest the money in continued use of WM devices?