Fighting Email Spam, Part N+1SeptemberAs a follow up to my GMail laments, I wanted to share…Attention Google: License ActiveSync!

If any of the Googlers-in-charge are listening, here’s my pure-gold tip of the day:

Buy a license of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Protocol.

With the rapid adoption of this protocol as de-facto standard for mobile email client synchronization and proliferation of Windows Mobile devices, it’s a no-brainer.

Call Me Gearhead2007Let’s pretend that I have a Web site that wants to use…I bet it will take a couple of nights for 2 of your over-caffeinated server gurus to hack together GMail and Google Calendar support for this, making it possible to sync any ActiveSync-enabled client with your server data.

And then you will offer an ever-too-tempting alternative to the business users who have to stick with the Microsoft Exchange at this time, giving sad, longing looks to your cool email and calendaring suite.

Clairvoyant Software Engineering20 days afterWhile ripping out old code and refactoring late last night, I muttered…Tags: google, microsoft, pure-gold, activesync.