And people wonder why PalmOS is dying. OK, I'll take it back; people aren't really wondering that much. It had its chance and Palm blew it. But still, if you haven't jumped ship yet, and have been waiting for a Vista-compatible version of Palm Desktop, it's finally here.You can download it from Palm's site here. Version 6.2 is the latest version (as of this writing). All's not perfect, though, if you read through the release notes.
Besides not supporting 64-bit versions of Vista or XP (and that's fairly common, so I won't give them flak for it), it's missing a lot of stuff that was previously supported.
- Palm Quick Install Tool: The Palm Quick Install Tool has been replaced by the Install Tool, which lets you install applications onto your device through HotSync.
- VersaMail HotSync synchronization: You will not be able to synchronize email through the USB sync cable. Wireless email synchronization, including Exchange ActiveSync for Outlook accounts, is not affected by this limitation.
- Birthdays and Anniversary reminders that appear in the Calendar on your Palm device will not appear in the Calendar in the Palm Desktop application. This does not apply to manually created Calendar events; it only applies to reminders generated from the Contacts application fields for Birthday and Anniversary on your device. These reminders will not appear in Palm Desktop, but they will be backed up on your computer when you sync, and they will be restored to your Palm device if you erase your device and then perform a HotSync operation to retrieve data from a backup.
- Color coding of events in the Calendar is no longer supported.
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