Hey Zack On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent points Marko. Interestingly enough, I discovered WHY they > discontinued it (at least one newsman's reasoning, but it makes sense) for > free accounts. You used to be able to sync your Windows 8 > mail/calendar/contacts via ActiveSync; (I found this setting up a Windows 8 > machine this weekend) but it was discontinued because Microsoft was making > Google pay a per-user license. I can clearly understand why they could no > longer provide this as a free service to their users, but still offer it to > paying customers. I have no doubt that EAS would have involved royalty payments to Microsoft, and I can fully understand why Google would drop it for their free accounts in favour of open standards (IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV). This continuous 'sync squabble' and legal spats between the two companies is just getting a bit much though! -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
