Microsoft has a family of products called Windows Mobile, which is designed for mobile devices like Pocket PC's and cell phones. Currently, email can be received on these devices by the user "pulling" the messages from the server. The next upgrade of Window Mobile will allow email to be "pushed" to the devices. This is what the RIM Blackberry device does. It's basically on-line all the time and mail is sent to it without the user needing to request it.
This product is just one of many for mobile devices that Microsoft will roll out over the next year. It will be interesting to see how well it works. Microsoft has also announced a joint project with RIM that will allow it's technologies to work with the Blackberry devices. Covering all the bases I guess!
Here's some info on Windows Mobile.
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