To foster application development and deployment, you would think the mobile phone OS manufacturers would make it *easier* to download and deploy apps. Unfortunately, Windows Mobile 6.1 took a step backwards in this department (could have been prior to this version, but we're getting more calls on this than any other...). Using Internet Explorer, if you click on a .cab file to try to download and install it, unfortunately, the default action got changed from "Open" to "Save". Now, the 'common man' is having incredible amounts of difficulty figuring out how to install applications. They take the default action (hey, who wouldn't...) and can't understand why the application doesn't install. Unfortunately, you have to choose "Open", not "Save". If you do choose Save, then go to the File Explorer, find the file in the My Documents folder and choose to Open it - which really means Install.
In summary two problems...1) why make it more difficult to install applications on an OS that is getting beaten in the market so severely?, 2) wouldn't it make sense for the OS to understand that a .cab file is an installation package and actually say "Install" vs. "Open"???
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