1) Never knew about the ctrl-A feature! Thanks for that.
2) Re. #8 and OEM licensing, I understand that, but it still doesn’t justify why they haven’t changed the way they license this stuff. It wouldn’t be impossible to design things the way the desktop is made. Issue each device a product key and start making things on the driver level, like for XP and Vista.
3) It may be a design issue, but on all the HTC devices I have here beam turns off IR and Bluetooth. It’s even there on devices that don’t have IR, so it clearly does more than just IR.

@Boll re: point 9. I dispute what you are saying. When I was attempting to send a file to a coworkers HTC Artemis which had bluetooth turned on and made visible, we had no success and could not work out why. It was only after reading around on the forums that I found the answer, Start, Settings, Connections, Beam, receive all incoming beams. Having checked the box there, the transfer was successful. While this option was not located in the power settings, it was still in a less than obvious place, and IMO hard for the average user to find.

I wish you focused more on how many taps it takes to for example create a new message or edit a calndar entry.
I remember the good old days when tapping an appointment took you straight to the edit page.
Whoever added two taps should be shot.

Many of the complaints in this article does not apply to Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone).

I think that Standard/Smartphone is more polished and better as a phone and Pro/Pocket PC is better as a PDA.

I also feel that Microsoft has mostly made tweaks and some UI theme updates since Windows Mobile 2003. Windows Mobile 6.1 will probably be no different. Windows Mobile 7 better be a huge improvment!