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Any developer can use the CF included in the shipping version of VS.NET 2003 to create mobile applications with ease. You'd think I'd be happy. I should be. But I think Microsoft is in danger of giving away many of the advantages it's worked so hard to achieve in mobile platforms. The problem: Microsoft is doing a poor job of publicizing and marketing the newfound power of this platform. The company offers the Mobile2Market program and the Mobile Solutions Partner Program, but it must hit developers at the education and conference level to get them and their managers to embrace this new market space. Technical conferences seem to shun sessions on Pocket PCs and the CF. Microsoft doesn't run all the conferences around the world...