The .NET Compact Framework 2.0 beta 2 is out! But it won't run on my awesome state-of-the-art Jornada 545. :-(

Supported Device Operating Systems: Windows Mobile Software for Pocket PC 2003 Pocket PC, Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ version 5.0 for Pocket PC and Smartphone, and Windows CE .NET 5.0.

Ok, ok, I admit, I expected this! My old Jornada is running Pocket PC 2000 (Windows CE 3.0 based), and has an astonishing 16 Mb of base storage to split with both storage and memory. Though I've installed the minimum in main storage, I have 7.5 Mb to work with when I boot. For example, I often can't open Windows Media Player and Word simulteneously, else I run out of memory.

Don't get me wrong, I love my PDA... But less than a few years ago. The battery is giving me less up-time than before, and more often than before I can't find software to run on Pocket PC 2000. I expected this to happen one day. My biggest frustration is I can't install a new OS. Can't brun the ROM. It will die with Pocket PC 2000.

But I'm a little surprise the new version of the .NET Compact Framework won't support Pocket PC 2002. Imagine if the regular .NET Framework was to only work on XP and 2003, but not on Windows 2000. People would scream! I thought the Windows CE 4.x market was big enough to justify supporting it. Oh well, I was wrong...

BTW, do you know where and when I bought my Jornada? At the Microsoft Store during my first Early Adopters .NET lab at Building 20. An impulsive decision at a time I didn't know I needed a PDA.