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Just a quick response to this article from the Windows Mobile Team Blog about why they took Wifi sync capability out of Windows Mobile 5 & ActiveSync 4:
Here is the way I see it:
Microsoft announced their so-called security initiative a year or three ago, and right afterwards, disabled wifi sync. You might recall, this was where they had press releases talking about how they were changing the way they were coding, tools, performance goals, etc all to revolve around security (because they were getting ripped about the lack thereof).
I have no evidence to prove this, but I think what happened was that some supervisor looked into what it would take to really secure wifi sync and after having a good look at the code decided it would be a huge job to redo some endemic design flaws. Supervisor said to his boss something like “it’ll take 3,000 man-hours to do it right”. The reply was something like, “uhh, let’s just disable it. I’ll have Marketing spin some reasons and tie it into our new security initiative”. I’m sure that the decision was intended to be revisited later, but as their enterprise customers (who have a large influence on future roadmap decisions) all were using Exchange so wifi sync wasn’t on their radar. Add to the fact that “everyone knows” that WEP can be broken as easily as an egg and that WPA/WPA2 wasn’t popular yet (not to mention not included in Windows Mobile!) and that basically explains it.
I really thought they would fix this with WMDC but here we are with Beta 2 and I don’t see wifi sync.
For the record, I just did a new Vista beta 2 build, plugged in my Sprint PPC-6700 via USB and…nada. Way to go Microsoft! WMDC is a chip off the old Activesync block!