A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 5, 2009 @12:01PM from the your-jeans-are-100pct-patches dept.

imamac writes "Apple Insider has an interesting perspective on the MS Exchange support built into Mac OS X 10.6 and how it essentially frees Apple from all things Microsoft: 'Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependence upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense. More importantly, Apple is providing its users with additional options that benefit both Mac users and the open source community.'"

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Re:Apple is not donig "Exchange". by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-05 13:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

If you consider IMAP to be a "security nightmare", I'm wondering why you allow anyone to access your exchange server at all.
If MS can't get IMAP to work securely, what makes you think they can do any better with any other protocol?