It certainly came as a bit of a surprise when Apple announced that it had licensed Activesync from Microsoft and was bringing full Exchange Server support to the iPhone [0]. After all, Apple had marketed the device almost exclusively to consumers since its release and had ignored repeated requests from users for corporate email support. So why now? And does the iPhone really stand a chance against entrenched enterprise players like Microsoft, RIM and Palm?

To find out the answers to these questions, we went, not to the notoriously tight-lipped folks at Apple, but to Microsoft, Apple’s unlikely partner for the iPhone’s enterprise push. In an interview with Adam Glick, Technical Product Manager for Microsoft’s Exchange group, we found out why IT admins should be excited about the iPhone, how this move characterizes Microsoft’s approach to licensing its technology and why Microsoft is helping a competitor gain a foothold in its most cherished market...

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