Apple iPhone Meets Microsoft Exchange
At an event today, Steve Jobs announced the following forthcoming iPhone capabilities, according to Fortune:
- Push e-mail
- Push calendars
Apple and Microsoft. Sometimes, they actually do get along. The iPhone will soon support Microsoft Exchange (as The VAR Guy suspected), along with a lengthly list of other enterprise features. Here’s the scoop.
At an event today, Steve Jobs announced the following forthcoming iPhone capabilities, according to Fortune:
- Push e-mail
- Push calendars
- Push contacts
- Global address lists
- Cisco IPsec VPN
- Certificates and identities
- WPA2/802.1x
- Enforced security policies
- Device configuration
- Remote wipe, in case the iPhone is lost or stolen
In the demo, Microsoft (MSFT) Exchange appears on the e-mail configuration panel, right above .Mac.
The VAR Guy is pleased. Very pleased. He took a beating from some readers over the past year, describing how iPhone was moving into organizations faster than even Apple expected.
Exchange support is the killer feature that will allow iPhone to become a corporate standard for senior executives and many employees who purchase the device on their own.
And don’t overlook the Cisco IPsec VPN support. The VAR Guy expects iPhone to become a key device in Cisco’s unified communications strategy.
However, our resident blogger doubts mission-critical businesses will abandon the BlackBerry. Seems as if Research In Motion’s device is one of the few offerings that can withstand Apple’s onslaught.
And more competition for iPhone — from Google’s Android — is just around the corner.
Wow. You’re righter than right. This is far more than I expected. (Not that I was one who criticized your predictions!)