Kudos to Microsoft’s mobile team. On the Windows Mobile Team blog they’ve been asking developers what they would like to see in the smartphone, and producing personal programs they needed on their phones. Now the developers are even addressing negative feedback they’ve received from WM5 AKU3. Specifically, people want to know why Bluetooth DUN has been dropped. The answer looks pretty simple, from the article:
So you may be thinking, ok, Internet Sharing is really cool but why did you need to remove Bluetooth DUN?!? My car kit or Mac does not support Bluetooth PAN and I relied on this legacy technology.
Actually, Microsoft did not remove Bluetooth DUN completely. We still ship this technology to our OEMs. It is included in an optional package that OEMs and operators can decide to ship on a per device basis.
or is it…
Internet Sharing is also in an optional package. We did change one thing though. Internet Sharing is included by default and Bluetooth DUN no longer is.
I’d like to think it’s simply Microsoft culling legacy technologies, but I can’t think of a reason why you’d want to cull a technology you’ve already put the work in to producing. I hesitate to say that the actual developers are practicing some sort of anti-competitive behavior, but the previous statement does seem odd. If it’s made optional, and it’s not included, then for all tense and purpose it has been removed.
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