According to Microsoft Watch, Microsoft’s latest Community Technology Preview(CTP) includes features designed to enable push email delivery. In fact, the article asserts that Exchange Server 2003 SP2, when coupled with the Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging and Security Feature Pack, will provide a push e-mail solution that Microsoft claims will trump the one delivered by RIM for its BlackBerry devices.
I do have one comment: the plan is for devices to maintain an HTTP connection over which email, calendar, and task notifications can be pushed… and that sounds like an aweful idea to me. The only reason they’re using HTTP is that most corporations block network protocols other than HTTP. The fact is, shoehorning extra functionality that should be on it’s own stay-live protocol into HTTP strikes me as a bad decision in the long term. Pretty soon companies are going to have to do packet-level inspecition of HTTP streams in order to provide the protection they need, what with SOAP’s remote procedure calls over HTTP, and now this….
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