Apple Inc. may announce full Exchange support for the iPhone at an event scheduled for Thursday, an analyst said last week.
"If Apple were to announce Exchange support on the iPhone next week it will be important news for the platform," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with JupiterResearch LLC. "This would be a nice win for Apple and will likely lead to a greater adoption of the iPhone in corporate settings."
Although Gartenberg had no inside information on what Apple meant last week went it said there would be "some exciting new enterprise features" included in the March 6 iPhone event, he theorized it might be related to Exchange, the market-leading mail server sold by Apple's rival, Microsoft Corp.
"If [as] part of the enterprise announcements next week, Apple announces it has licensed the ActiveSync/Exchange protocol from Microsoft, presumably this would mean that the iPhone would at some point sync directly with Exchange," said Gartenberg in a post to his blog last Thursday. "Bottom line if this happens? Big win for Apple."
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