Microsoft's Windows Media Player is new to the Pocket PC and I believe it will prove to be one of the most popular additions. Preloaded on all Pocket PCs, this application provides digital music playback capability, letting you play MP3 and WMA music formats. This will help them compete effectively with other popular Windows CE MP3 players. In the future I would like to see an MPEG playback feature included, such as their PC version of Media Player offers. Expanding Media Player's capability to support streaming audio would also be a welcome addition.
Peacemaker does one important thing well.
It lets you send and receive data via a device's infrared port to other non-Windows CE PDAs, specifically PalmOS and Psion units. Peacemaker is a great name selection and an effective description of what the application actually does. Until now, Windows CE units have not been able to communicate via infrared with Palm or Psion devices. In addition, Palm and Psion are unable to communicate with each other. Peacemaker gives Microsoft the compatibility advantage.