Ya know... I read a lot of thinsg where I hear gripes about Outlook as compared to online mail clients - now it is worse, since Apple has licenses MS's technology for sync, etc...
It's just daffy and makes me wonder if the pundits sharing such opinions have ever actually used Outlook (anywhere) and Exchange with its native support for RPC over HTTPS (the protocol behind Outlook anywhere) and mobile devices with secure OTA ActiveSync.
Lately many people are treating so much of this as "new" or worse, "Unique to Apple" - daffier.
It isn't new at all and has existed for a long time - forced encryption over TCP, for example, has been around since 2000.
A great many people here have had direct push and full sync to multiple systems and mobile devices for years - including hooks to document libraries in Sharepoint.
For those saying MS has no plan or strategy, that just makes no sense. There is, Live Mesh, which is the application or connectivity shell. Then there is the API, SyncFX and finally, FeedSync, the protocol. So we there is a distributed client, an API and open protocols - all of which are open for any of us to use on our apps. Shoot, they even plan to extend the services infrastructure to anyone who wants it. It's good stuff!
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