Petition to developers and vendors of Pocket PC software to make cab files available.

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To all developers and vendors of Pocket PC software:

Many users in the Pocket PC community have a problem. We are tired of developers and vendors giving us .exe files for Pocket PC software. This is extremely annoying for the following reasons:
1. Not everybody has a PC
2. Many including myself, travel with a Pocket PC only.
3. Its too much of a hastle to fireup the PC and install. These installers take up space on the PC as well.
4. Most of these do not require some kind of a conduit on the pc.

So you see, by distributing exe files instead of cab files makes life more complicated. If software developers and vendors would make changes to thier websites to allow downloads for both .cab and .exe files then people like the author of this petition and the undersigned would download and probably buy more software, Even if it includes a conduit. Most the time, the conduit is not necessary. Many times, Pocket PC devices include a connection to the internet.
So please, vendors and developers, make .cab files more readily available.

112 Signatures

  • Jakg
    • Comments
    • Cabs Are Useful!
  • David Matthew Thomas
    • Comments
    • ActiveSync is not the greatest software, so many like me are stuck with problems and have to use a card reader. All those .EXE's take up space and are annoying on my PC.
  • Olawale
    • Comments
    • We want cabs ONLY!
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • All PPC developers and vendors
  • Lu Pham
  • Kyle Stewart
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • All
  • Ian Breakspear
  • Mark White
    • Comments
    • I could not agree more.
  • Andreas Weiler
  • Ken Giannotti
  • Gonny van der Zwaag
  • Richard Otoar
  • Rick Swartz
  • Renй
    • Comments
    • Cab files are essential
  • Guust
    • Comments
    • Totally agree! CAB only!
  • Louis Swieber
  • Klaas Vaak
    • Comments
    • В
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • В
  • Matthijs van Dijk
  • Harry
    • Comments
    • I only install software with cab-files
  • WFEJ Helmig
  • Rick
  • RDM
    • Comments
    • CAB please :)
  • Tim Leferink
  • Erwin van der Voort
    • Comments
    • online cabs are great !
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • all developers...
  • Marcel Vogel
  • Koen Sadza
  • r. alsemgeest
  • Tom Bergstra
  • M.Noort
  • postbus31
  • Bram
    • Comments
    • I WANT .CAB!!
  • macbud
    • Comments
    • Mac-user
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • All
  • Roland de Rooij
  • gideon Nelissen
    • Comments
    • I am a mac user, now days you can not deny this os anymore
  • Erik Onnes
  • rawi ramdhan
    • Comments
    • В
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • В
  • batto
  • P.J. Feldberg
  • Paul Willen
  • Heuts
  • Roland
  • Andre
    • Comments
    • В
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • В
  • Arjan Leurs
  • peppy
  • Ronald Davidsz
  • jochen
    • Comments
    • В
    • Vendor or Developer that you want to change.
    • В
  • H. van Baalen
  • Rik Carton
    • Comments
    • Also for smartphones: downloadable CAB files are the (only) way to go!
  • Drй Lameir
    • Comments
    • Good idea
  • Toby leurs
  • Ad Bosch