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Originally Posted by luv2chill
There's no official list of upgrades between AKUs. Microsoft doesn't publish this stuff publicly, so everything we know has to be "figured out" by trial and error.
There is not much difference between AKU 3.3 and 3.5, that is for sure. Some icons are different. But there are likely some small bug fixes under the hood that we just don't know about yet. We are just relying on the "newer=better" principle (which sometimes does not hold true).
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Found this on one of the Windows mobile developers blogs over on MSDN:
"The main reason for not publicly broadcasting AKU details is that AKUs tend to contain features that OEMs may or *may not* include in their devices. For example, it may support a new piece of hardware that is specific to a new device.
If that new AKU was taken to be the new version of Windows Mobile 5, then "platform fragmentation" would occur, where an API was available on Device A, and not on Device B.
What happens with a software developer uses this API, and the owner of Device B buys and installs it? It doesn't work. Frustration and confusion all around. Not to mention multiple versions of the SDK for developers to fight with.
Of course, ideally, all information would be publicly available and we would trust developers to do The Right Thing. If nothing else, that would make our job easier when it comes to documentating it all!
However, the risk of creating multiple platforms is a very real one, and for the moment at least, that's one reason why AKU material isn't released publicly.
And that's why any application written for Windows Mobile 5 runs on a device that has Windows Mobile 5 on it.
Hope that helps."
So, anyone have a contact at UT Starcomm?
