In his recent post Mike Zintel divuldges some information on the past, present and future of evolution of the NetCF and asking some feedback on the priorities for v.Next. As I already pointed out in my previouse post, CF lacks essential support for developing SOA such as WS-* protocol suite or Indigo. So seeing that CF team is thinking on leveraging it is very encoraging sign. The only problem I see here is the timing. Mike mentions this in the context of V3, but we need it now. The project that I am working on is a real time trading system that utilizes desktop as well as CE devices clients. In the case of desktop the usage of WSE is no brainer and fits in the architecture that I designed pretty well. But in case of CE devices I have to go through some loops by utilizing a Web Service in the middle for outgoing messages and a custom UDP communication for incoming. Plus by the time the CF V3 will be coming out the Indigo should be available so it would make sence to implement Indigo for CF V3 as well. How about if CF team would release a WS-* for CF as and add-on not tied up to V3, but may be to some Service Pack for v2 of CF and provided a full support for Indigo in the V3. I think this should be a feasable option since MS already has the WSE in the v2.0 which is pretty stable and shouldn't pose a lot problems when porting the code to CF v2.