One more in the fight: Windows Phone will be compatible with the new Google DAV protocols but
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In the middle of last month another piece of news about the disputes between Google and Microsoft made noise, it was published from an official blog of the people of the great search engine to mention that contact and calendar synchronization through Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync was going to end this coming January 30 leaving all Windows Phone users unable to synchronize the contents of new Google Gmail accounts with their terminals.
Everything indicated that Google had disguised this blockage with the launch of its new protocols for this synchronization called CardDAV and CalDAV which will be used to synchronize both contacts and calendar on compatible devices, an issue in which Windows Phone was not.
The actual situation
But this story has not stopped there, since now some sources have declared to The Verge that Microsoft is indeed working on support for the new DAV protocolfrom Google for Windows Phone 8, support that although it is safe to have it in a few months, most likely it will arrive after the cut that is made of Exchange ActiveSync, leaving some users flying until Redmond finish the job.
In addition to this very important statement, mention is made that Google had announced to Microsoft since the end of last summer about this action, an issue that the developers analyzed in detail, which they say they have already included DAV support in Windows Phone 8 would have significantly delayed its release.
Mind you, there was no specific date until Google made January 30th official as the deadline, leaving developers in a rush to include DAV support , more to mention the famous dates that came at the end of last month.
A single and simple request
Microsoft has had to fold its hands for its users according to The Verge, as they have requested a longer term from Google before remove support for Exchange ActiveSync request that for now has not been answered by Google but without a doubt would be a sigh of relief for Microsoft and its developers knowing that users would not have any problems with their Gmail accounts.
These disputes between Microsoft and Google are becoming more intense, of course the competitiveness between the two companies is more than obvious but as always in some cases they do not care that the users are the ones suffering from such disputes.
On the other hand, not so far from the subject, I dare to say as many others have done: we are in time to analyze the use of the newly released Outlook and other Microsoft services and gradually forget the Google services, because it won't take long for this bomb to explode a little more than it already exploded, and I repeat that at the end of the day we are those of us in the middle.
