Office Professional Plus 2010 In Apple's footsteps

Microsoft;s ActiveSync licensing system is continuing full-steam forward.Last yr, Apple acknowledged it had licensed ActiveSync to allow superior synchronization in between Exchange Server plus the iPhone. ActiveSync, as explained on Microsoft;s Internet web-site, is “a communication protocol that enables mobile,Office Professional Plus 2010, ‘over-the-air; access to your e-mail messages, schedules, contacts, tasks lists, and other Exchange Server mailbox data.On February 9, Microsoft announced that Google had become the latest ActiveSync licensee. Google apparently is licensing ActiveSync in order to permit tighter synchronization among Exchange and its newly unveiled Google Sync service.(Just to be clear: Google didn;t announce it was licensing ActiveSync; Microsoft announced it for them. Today;s announcement on the Google blog never mentions ActiveSync at all. Instead it mentions Windows Mobile.)Google;s Google Sync sounds very very much like the Microsoft My Phone (Skybox) service that the Redmondians are slated to launch next week at the World Mobile Congress show in Barcelona.Microsoft has licensed ActiveSync to a number of mobile vendors, including Nokia, Palm, Sony Ericsson and others. The standard fee Microsoft charges its ActiveSync licensees is $100,000 “or first-year’s royalties, whichever is higher, with a per unit royalty thereafter.”