Three of the biggest names in mobile technology have entered what they’ve called a “special relationship” with Orange’s UK release of the Motorola MPx200 mobile phone with Microsoft Windows Mobile software.
Smart phone market leader Symbian has licensed Microsoft's Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol and will be developing a plug-in that will enable users of Symbian-based phones to access the software giant's email applications.
For example, Microsoft is licensing its ActiveSync email protocols to Symbian, which makes an operating system that competes with Windows Mobile. RIM's Blackberry Enterprise Server software remains a competitor to ActiveSync.
IT managers can now mandate policies and password protocols, as well as exceptions. Just weeks after releasing its latest operating system for mobiles, Windows Mobile 5.0, Microsoft has unveiled a security and messaging features top-up.
In addition, it lets people create groups with multimedia profiles from existing directories or from their mobile service. The SCO Group has unveiled a mobile digital service that lets handheld devices distribute voice and text messages to groups...
Certainly the support for ActiveSync is one of these [as is] independence from the carrier. She said: "The Exchange email server is the market leader… I would expect in the future it might happen that we see Apple licensing the ActiveSync software...