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The biggest problem with Exchange Active Sync is that to implement it you have to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft. For a lot of smaller developers that simply
by X-Istence 14y ago
The biggest problem with Exchange Active Sync is that to implement it you have to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft. For a lot of smaller developers that simply isn't an option, especially for something they are giving away for free or for a very low price.
Also, EAS is proprietary, whereas IMAP is open. Outlook.com should simply add IMAP support.
- mattl 14y agoCheck out Davmail -- http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ -- turns Exchange into standards.
- gislifb 14y agoSecond that, although I never got anything but the mail to work (no contacts, cal, tasks) and since evolution is a piece of crap (at least the version that comes with FC 18) I had to use thunderbird which doesn't have cal. But it's still worth it!