Microsoft Reader back from the dead, says TechFlash
By Paul Biba
I love that title! Here’s what TechFlash has to say about this update:
… The comment made me wonder about the status of Microsoft Reader, and it turns out that blogger Todd Ogasawara turned up something very interesting on that front this week. The Microsoft Reader team, apparently stirring to life, released a small update for the Windows Mobile version of Microsoft Reader. (It’s for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 devices but not WinMo 6.5, which hits the market next month.)
Just how stagnant has this Microsoft product been? The release this week for Windows Mobile, Version 2.4.2, was a follow-up to Version 2.4.1 — which came out in November 2005, nearly four years ago. Microsoft pays so much attention to the Microsoft Reader promotional page that it still bears the "Live Search" logo next to its search box, more than three months after the Bing launch.
September 20th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
This is good news, although in a very tiny package. MS Reader is still one of the best ereaders, IMO. For example, it offers 3 levels of DRM: none, social, and encrypted.
If it had been kept up to date over the last several years, MS might have made money and gotten market share out of it. If they had been savvy enough to broadly license it, they might have locked out Adobe.
Alas, they didn’t.
Regards,
Jack Tingle