Why?
Seriously though, this is ‘A Good Thing’ as there should be more interoperability between the myriad numbers of email clients out there.
They also get to be on the good side of the clowns at the EU Directorate of US IP Pilfering.
One thing that seems to have escaped the comprehension of those troglodytes at the EU is that these moves could actually backfire, since lazy developers would no nothing other that develop against Microsoft’s technologies, fostering that most insidious of outcomes, vendor lock-in.
Well, good for Microsoft.
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