Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2013 21:17 UTC
The Verge has a learned a few interesting things about Google deprecating EAS and how this will affect Windows Phone users. As it turns out, Google informed Microsoft it was planning to remove EAS in the summer of last year, but without giving a firm date. Microsoft has been trying to get a six-month extension from Google, but so far with no luck. In the meantime, Microsoft is also working on adding CardDAV and CalDAV support to Windows Phone - so yay open standards.
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Microsoft did it to themselves. Implementing support for *DAV should have been a no brainer from the start, and not simply because of Google. These are open, royalty-free standards that are used by a multitude of servers both corporate and otherwise. Of course, that's probably why they didn't do it. They probably assumed they could throw their weight around if they held off, since most major services also supported EAS. What Microsoft has so far failed to learn, even though it's been plain as day from the get go, is that this is not a market they can bully by refusing to implement an open standard. They have no weight to throw around in the mobile space, and they've just lost the first battle. I've nothing against Microsoft products, but they need to change tactics mighty quick if they don't want Windows Phone to become irrelevant within the next two years. Here's to hoping that being essentially left with no choice but to implement *DAV wakes them up a bit, as I'd like to see Windows Phone give some healthy competition to the big two.