Not sure how this one got through to the street. This article was published on Nov 8th.
From Infoworld:
Many businesses will not be able to support Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system, which began shipping in the United States today. Like the competing Google Android, Windows Phone 7 does not support on-device encryption to protect data stored on it. Many businesses require such encryption to be able to access corporate data through EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) policies and automatically block connections from devices that don’t support device-level encryption.
Well, that would certainly rank as a screw up. Question is, how long until they can get it fixed?
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