Gmail ActiveSync gets 6 month reprieve for Windows Phone—but not Windows 8

Microsoft announced Google will continue to provide Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support to Windows Phone users for another six months.

Google announced in December it was turning off EAS on free Gmail accounts at the end of this month. Google wants to use a combination of IMAP, CardDAV, and CalDAV instead of EAS. After the cut-off, existing sync relationships would have continued to work, but any new phones (or reset old phones) would have to go without.

That caused a big problem for Windows Phone users, as Microsoft’s smartphone platform depends on EAS for both push mail and syncing of calendars and contacts.

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