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Normally, i ignore Daniel Eran DildoDliger, because not only is the boy the living embodiment of Artie MacStrawman, but face it...he's just a fucking dumbass. Constantly. Consistently. Dumb. Ass.

Take his latest shitpile on AppleInsider: Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support. I have not seen something that wrong since I had to eat Keilbasa with Cool-Whip as dip.

Integrated support for Exchange beginning with last year's iPhone 2.0 means Apple's mobile platform simply doesn't need an Outlook client. Now Snow Leopard can also get by without Entourage/Outlook, thanks to new and improved baked-in support for Exchange in Mail, Address Book and iCal.

Dildo is of course making the classic MacMac dumbass argument:any Exchange support Apple provides is all the support you need. This of course, is idiotic. While I'm quite sure that Apple handles the basics well enough, it's not going to match even Entourage's feature set, much less the featureset of an application no one knows about, namely Outlook. Yet, in true MacMac fashion, Daniel knows, KNOWS that Apple's Exchange support is all you need.

With iWork and the built in Exchange client support in Snow Leopard, many users will have no need to even consider Microsoft's Mac client offerings. It will be very difficult for Microsoft to convince Mac users that they need Office after those users discover suitable alternatives that cost significantly less

Dildo has a rare good point here. Microsoft does have a problem getting people to pay for Office for home/soho use. However, in the enterprise, the story's a bit different, since what you pay for Office with an Enterprise Agreement is significantly less than you pay for Office retail. Also, if your company, like many who use Microsoft backends, is using things like Sharepoint, then the cost of Apple's offerings is rather meaningless: you'll need more than they can provide.

With Snow Leopard and the iPhone each now providing their own client layer for accessing Exchange Server, Apple can now offer its users alternative access to other server products as well, from its own MobileMe and Snow Leopard Server offerings to web services from Google and Yahoo. This effectively turns Microsoft from a direct seller into a wholesaler that has to deal with Apple as a middleman retailer.

Disappointingly, but predictably, Dildo veers from "good point land" back into MacMac Dumbassville at high speeds. Out of all the vendors he lists, only Google is actually a competitor for Microsoft in the groupware arena. Mobileme as an Exchange competitor? You'd have to be smoking hobo crack, (as in "ass" not "rock") to say that without snickering. As well, the fact that the iPhone can talk to Exchange via EAS, (Exchange Active Sync, an Microsoft technology that Apple licenses from Microsoft. I guess Dildo conveniently forgets this), or that Mac OS X 10.6 can talk to Exchange via Exchange Web Services (another Microsoft tech), has nothing to do with the fact that Apple provides other ways to talk to other services. For one, you can't use CalDAV with Exchange anyway, unless you use some unsupported connector. As far as the "turning Microsoft into a wholesaler" shit...fuck dude, beats me, maybe the speckled pills were kicking in?

Ten years ago, Apple was in that position with its hardware sales. It tried hard to get Sears, CompUSA and other retailers to sell Macs for it, but those retailers also sold generic PCs. Because they made more money selling generic PCs, they had little incentive to aggressively market Macs. Apple's retail stores eventually solved this issue by allowing the company to reach users directly.

Note: this is a non-sequiter, but with Dildo, (yeah, that's my new name for him. Makes him sound like the fucked-up hobbit that no one would play with. The one that sits in the corner, eating lice out of his foot hair) loves to bring shit like this up. He still can't accept that the 'bad old days' are over a decade gone. He also forgets that Apple is gradually reintroducing Macs back into other retail environments, like Best Buy. But then, Dildo's a dumbass.

As Apple takes over the client end of Exchange, it similarly gains market leverage. First and foremost, the move allows Apple to improve the Exchange experience of Mac users so that business users have no reason not to buy Macs. Secondly, it gives Apple a client audience to market its own server solutions, including MobileMe to individual users and Snow Leopard Server to organizations. In concert with providing Exchange Server support, Apple is also delivering integrated support for its own Exchange alternatives in both MobileMe and with Snow Leopard Server's improved Dovecot email services, Address Book Server, iCal Server, the new Mobile Access secure gateway, and its included Push Notification Server.

MOBILEME IS NOT AN EXCHANGE REPLACEMENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT.

Jesus, has this fuckwit ever USED Exchange? I mean in the last ten years? Saying MobileMe is a viable alternative to Exchange is like saying that a fucking Chevy K car is a viable alternative to a Kenworth Semi, because they're both vehicles. Secondly, you waste of colon, "Dovecot email services" literally makes no fucking sense. There's no email service called "Dovecot". Do you have a Dovecot client? A Dovecot protocol? No. You can have a Dovecot-based email server that provides POP/IMAP/SMTP email services, but there's no fucking such thing as Dovecot email services. Secondly, Mobile Access Gateway is not a fucking Exchange anything, it's a fucking reverse SSL proxy. A security appliance, not a groupware server. Address Book Server? Neat idea, but it's a fucking 1.0 product based on a pre-standard draft, and there's no one making clients yet except for Apple, and maybe Oracle. What are the windows users supposed to do? Oh wait, no one uses Windows once you bring a Mac in the door, because they're fucking magic. Push Notification Server? Goddamnit, where's my fucking Cockpunch over IP client?

But none of this, none of this compares to the sheer idiocy that follows:

Apple's support for Exchange and its promotion of its own Exchange alternatives are two sides of the same coin, in the sense that they use the same technologies. Apple built its support for Exchange using WebDAV, the open specification that Microsoft supports on Exchange Server as a way to deliver messages to mobile clients. Apple did not license Microsoft's Windows-only "Exchange Active Sync" software; it merely licensed the rights to implement a compatible EAS conduit with Exchange. Apple owns the Snow Leopard software that talks to Exchange.

The client applications Apple has upgraded in Snow Leopard to connect to Exchange, including Mail, Address Book, and iCal, also use WebDAV to talk to Apple's own Snow Leopard Server applications. Because Apple makes its money almost exclusively from selling hardware, it has opened up its own Snow Leopard Server applications, Address Book Server and iCal Server, as open source Darwin servers that can be compiled to run on Linux. That means Apple is essentially giving away both the client (to Mac users) and the servers (to the community) in order to encourage the use of open standards in messaging and collaboration. That giveaway is being done to help Apple sell Macs.

This effort to support everything from integrated client software owned by Apple makes Snow Leopard's support for Exchange of use to everyone, even if they don't use Exchange. The client work Apple has invested in making Macs Exchange-friendly also improves the features available via MobileMe, Snow Leopard Server, and even some other third party services such as those from Google and Yahoo.

There is nothing, literally nothing about those paragraphs that makes any fucking sense, and it shows that Daniel doesn't know a fucking thing about what he's blathering about. First, no, Apple is not using either WebDAV or HTTP-DAV, (the correct term for the protocol he got wrong), to talk to Exchange. For the Exchange connectivity in Mac OS X 10.6, Apple is using Exchange Web Services, or EWS for short to talk to Exchange. EWS is the protocol that is not only replacing DAV, but MAPI as well, and I'm almost surprised he didn't say that Apple was using MAPI. In fact, the use of EWS is why you can only use Mac OS X 10.6's Exchange support with Exchange 2007 or later, because earlier versions don't support EWS. Ironically, if Apple was using DAV, they'd be able to talk to Exchange 2003 or 2000, because those version support DAV too!

Secondly, no, Apple didn't license EAS for Mac OS X 10.6, it licensed it for the fucking iPhone. Apple wouldn't use EAS for Mac OS X 10.6, because EAS is designed for mobile devices. As well, you waste of fucking carbon, EAS is not windows-fucking-only. It's used on pretty much every smartphone on the planet, and by quite a few groupware servers on Linux and Mac OS X. In fact, at my "real" job, we use EAS to connect iPhones to Kerio Mail Server running on Mac OS X! So no you dickwipe, Apple doesn't own all the software that they use to talk to Exchange, or Exchange-like servers.

Fourthly, Apple's implementation of EWS on its client software has nothing to do with the services provided by its server software, and it has even less to do with MobileMe, (what the FUCK is it with Dildo and MobileMe), Google or Yahoo. Apple's server products don't provide EWS for clients, and you can't use EWS to connect to Google or Yahoo, because they don't use EWS either.

I've seen more intelligent things written by diarrhetic gibbons in their own shit than this fucking tripe.

The last three paragraphs continue this line of shit so badly that I can't even bring myself to go into details.

Oh, and I see Daniel wrote a book on Mac OS X Server. Quite honestly, if you're buying books on technical matters written by Dildo, save some money and just ask the fucking cat. You'll get an answer of equal quality, only from a more authoritative source.

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Normally, i ignore Daniel Eran DildoDliger, because not only is the boy the living embodiment of Artie MacStrawman, but face it...he's just a fucking dumbass. Constantly. Consistently. Dumb. Ass.\n\nTake his latest shitpile on AppleInsider: Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support. I have not seen something that wrong since I had to eat Keilbasa with Cool-Whip as dip. \n

Integrated support for Exchange beginning with last year's iPhone 2.0 means Apple's mobile platform simply doesn't need an Outlook client. Now Snow Leopard can also get by without Entourage/Outlook, thanks to new and improved baked-in support for Exchange in Mail, Address Book and iCal.

\nDildo is of course making the classic MacMac dumbass argument:any Exchange support Apple provides is all the support you need. This of course, is idiotic. While I'm quite sure that Apple handles the basics well enough, it's not going to match even Entourage's feature set, much less the featureset of an application no one knows about, namely Outlook. Yet, in true MacMac fashion, Daniel knows, KNOWS that Apple's Exchange support is all you need.\n

With iWork and the built in Exchange client support in Snow Leopard, many users will have no need to even consider Microsoft's Mac client offerings. It will be very difficult for Microsoft to convince Mac users that they need Office after those users discover suitable alternatives that cost significantly less

\nDildo has a rare good point here. Microsoft does have a problem getting people to pay for Office for home/soho use. However, in the enterprise, the story's a bit different, since what you pay for Office with an Enterprise Agreement is significantly less than you pay for Office retail. Also, if your company, like many who use Microsoft backends, is using things like Sharepoint, then the cost of Apple's offerings is rather meaningless: you'll need more than they can provide.\n

With Snow Leopard and the iPhone each now providing their own client layer for accessing Exchange Server, Apple can now offer its users alternative access to other server products as well, from its own MobileMe and Snow Leopard Server offerings to web services from Google and Yahoo. This effectively turns Microsoft from a direct seller into a wholesaler that has to deal with Apple as a middleman retailer.

\nDisappointingly, but predictably, Dildo veers from \"good point land\" back into MacMac Dumbassville at high speeds. Out of all the vendors he lists, only Google is actually a competitor for Microsoft in the groupware arena. Mobileme as an Exchange competitor? You'd have to be smoking hobo crack, (as in \"ass\" not \"rock\") to say that without snickering. As well, the fact that the iPhone can talk to Exchange via EAS, (Exchange Active Sync, an Microsoft technology that Apple licenses from Microsoft. I guess Dildo conveniently forgets this), or that Mac OS X 10.6 can talk to Exchange via Exchange Web Services (another Microsoft tech), has nothing to do with the fact that Apple provides other ways to talk to other services. For one, you can't use CalDAV with Exchange anyway, unless you use some unsupported connector. As far as the \"turning Microsoft into a wholesaler\" shit...fuck dude, beats me, maybe the speckled pills were kicking in?\n

Ten years ago, Apple was in that position with its hardware sales. It tried hard to get Sears, CompUSA and other retailers to sell Macs for it, but those retailers also sold generic PCs. Because they made more money selling generic PCs, they had little incentive to aggressively market Macs. Apple's retail stores eventually solved this issue by allowing the company to reach users directly.

\nNote: this is a non-sequiter, but with Dildo, (yeah, that's my new name for him. Makes him sound like the fucked-up hobbit that no one would play with. The one that sits in the corner, eating lice out of his foot hair) loves to bring shit like this up. He still can't accept that the 'bad old days' are over a decade gone. He also forgets that Apple is gradually reintroducing Macs back into other retail environments, like Best Buy. But then, Dildo's a dumbass.\n

As Apple takes over the client end of Exchange, it similarly gains market leverage. First and foremost, the move allows Apple to improve the Exchange experience of Mac users so that business users have no reason not to buy Macs. Secondly, it gives Apple a client audience to market its own server solutions, including MobileMe to individual users and Snow Leopard Server to organizations. In concert with providing Exchange Server support, Apple is also delivering integrated support for its own Exchange alternatives in both MobileMe and with Snow Leopard Server's improved Dovecot email services, Address Book Server, iCal Server, the new Mobile Access secure gateway, and its included Push Notification Server.

\nMOBILEME IS NOT AN EXCHANGE REPLACEMENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT.\n\nJesus, has this fuckwit ever USED Exchange? I mean in the last ten years? Saying MobileMe is a viable alternative to Exchange is like saying that a fucking Chevy K car is a viable alternative to a Kenworth Semi, because they're both vehicles. Secondly, you waste of colon, \"Dovecot email services\" literally makes no fucking sense. There's no email service called \"Dovecot\". Do you have a Dovecot client? A Dovecot protocol? No. You can have a Dovecot-based email server that provides POP/IMAP/SMTP email services, but there's no fucking such thing as Dovecot email services. Secondly, Mobile Access Gateway is not a fucking Exchange anything, it's a fucking reverse SSL proxy. A security appliance, not a groupware server. Address Book Server? Neat idea, but it's a fucking 1.0 product based on a pre-standard draft, and there's no one making clients yet except for Apple, and maybe Oracle. What are the windows users supposed to do? Oh wait, no one uses Windows once you bring a Mac in the door, because they're fucking magic. Push Notification Server? Goddamnit, where's my fucking Cockpunch over IP client?\n\nBut none of this, none of this compares to the sheer idiocy that follows:\n

Apple's support for Exchange and its promotion of its own Exchange alternatives are two sides of the same coin, in the sense that they use the same technologies. Apple built its support for Exchange using WebDAV, the open specification that Microsoft supports on Exchange Server as a way to deliver messages to mobile clients. Apple did not license Microsoft's Windows-only \"Exchange Active Sync\" software; it merely licensed the rights to implement a compatible EAS conduit with Exchange. Apple owns the Snow Leopard software that talks to Exchange.\n\nThe client applications Apple has upgraded in Snow Leopard to connect to Exchange, including Mail, Address Book, and iCal, also use WebDAV to talk to Apple's own Snow Leopard Server applications. Because Apple makes its money almost exclusively from selling hardware, it has opened up its own Snow Leopard Server applications, Address Book Server and iCal Server, as open source Darwin servers that can be compiled to run on Linux. That means Apple is essentially giving away both the client (to Mac users) and the servers (to the community) in order to encourage the use of open standards in messaging and collaboration. That giveaway is being done to help Apple sell Macs.\n\nThis effort to support everything from integrated client software owned by Apple makes Snow Leopard's support for Exchange of use to everyone, even if they don't use Exchange. The client work Apple has invested in making Macs Exchange-friendly also improves the features available via MobileMe, Snow Leopard Server, and even some other third party services such as those from Google and Yahoo.

\nThere is nothing, literally nothing about those paragraphs that makes any fucking sense, and it shows that Daniel doesn't know a fucking thing about what he's blathering about. First, no, Apple is not using either WebDAV or HTTP-DAV, (the correct term for the protocol he got wrong), to talk to Exchange. For the Exchange connectivity in Mac OS X 10.6, Apple is using Exchange Web Services, or EWS for short to talk to Exchange. EWS is the protocol that is not only replacing DAV, but MAPI as well, and I'm almost surprised he didn't say that Apple was using MAPI. In fact, the use of EWS is why you can only use Mac OS X 10.6's Exchange support with Exchange 2007 or later, because earlier versions don't support EWS. Ironically, if Apple was using DAV, they'd be able to talk to Exchange 2003 or 2000, because those version support DAV too!\n\nSecondly, no, Apple didn't license EAS for Mac OS X 10.6, it licensed it for the fucking iPhone. Apple wouldn't use EAS for Mac OS X 10.6, because EAS is designed for mobile devices. As well, you waste of fucking carbon, EAS is not windows-fucking-only. It's used on pretty much every smartphone on the planet, and by quite a few groupware servers on Linux and Mac OS X. In fact, at my \"real\" job, we use EAS to connect iPhones to Kerio Mail Server running on Mac OS X! So no you dickwipe, Apple doesn't own all the software that they use to talk to Exchange, or Exchange-like servers.\n\nFourthly, Apple's implementation of EWS on its client software has nothing to do with the services provided by its server software, and it has even less to do with MobileMe, (what the FUCK is it with Dildo and MobileMe), Google or Yahoo. Apple's server products don't provide EWS for clients, and you can't use EWS to connect to Google or Yahoo, because they don't use EWS either. \n\nI've seen more intelligent things written by diarrhetic gibbons in their own shit than this fucking tripe. \n\nThe last three paragraphs continue this line of shit so badly that I can't even bring myself to go into details.\n\nOh, and I see Daniel wrote a book on Mac OS X Server. Quite honestly, if you're buying books on technical matters written by Dildo, save some money and just ask the fucking cat. You'll get an answer of equal quality, only from a more authoritative source.\n\n

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