This is a blog post?

Seriously?

I know they pay-per-post, but still. . . . printer driver updates . . . ?!?!? . . .

Even if they were "hesitant" to license it, they basically HAVE to license it due to antitrust issues. MS has huge "market power" in this area and refusing to license it to Apple on commercially reasonable terms would be a blatant violation of the federal antitrust laws. Trust me on this one.

It's almost already there really -- if you have Entourage, it has ActiveSync support and then can be set to automatically sync with iCal & Address Book. Don't expect Microsoft to offer that support without Entourage however -- that would make no sense to MS from a business perspective as it would take away the only reason a lot of us still prefer Office over iWork. (Especially now that Word doesn't support VisualBasic, which is absolutely devastating, and I won't ever buy Office 2008 because of that -- just going to keep running 2004 in Rosetta.)

License ActiveSync, please!!!!

There are tons of people at my work, and other people who I know who are waiting on this. Using a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device, you get so used to having your contacts, and especially your calendars, synced at all times so you don't have to ever worry about plugging your device in. With my device prior to the iPhone (a Tmobile Dash), I think I plugged it in to the computer every two or three weeks. Obviously, with an iPhone, you will do it more because of the media management, but still, it's a huge pain in the ass to remember to plug it in every day so my calendars are synced up.

"It is like suing Sony because their TVs and DVD players allow me to watch a bootleged DVD"

That's been tried and the Supreme Court had to address the case and bail Sony out (Sony lost in th lower courts). See Sony v. Universal, 464 U.S. 417 (1984), i.e., the Sony Betamax case.

No virtual basic, no more Office. This will be the last installment of Office on the Mac. Rather than wait a few years, and make it so Virtual Basic could run on Mac Office -- in the meantime, we live with Rosetta-Office, which is fine -- they are coming out with this which will kill compatability. Sales die. MS puts up its hands and says no one is buying Mac office, and that's the end of it.

I want to win

Uhh, we know why Apple Corps. gave the trademarks to them -- it is very clear and alluded to in this post. In England, when you lose a lawsuit, you have to pay BOTH sides attorneys' fees. Thus, Apple Corps. agreed to this so that thye would not have to pay Apple Inc.'s fees, which were probably upwards of ten million bucks. And contra the commenter above, Apple did "win" the trademarks but getting Apple Corps. to agree that Apple Inc. owns them -- it doesn't matter that that particular part was "out of court" -- it certainly was a win and it was a direct result of Apple Inc.'s win inn court.

What do I think? I think you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about if you think that "in the real world" wifi gets 27 MBs/second!!!!!!!!!!! Not a chance; not a freaking chance you have EVER seen anything like that even on an 802.11n network. "Theoretical" bandwidths are just that -- very theoretical, not "half" of what they say. Have you ever seen 240 mb/s (480 being the "theoretical" maximum) a second on USB 2? I can tell you that you have not.

"Look at how many times Apple has sued a company for putting "i" in front of their product name."

That would be like never. Get your facts straight; you don't know what you are talking about. There are many products with i in front of it, unless it's iBook, iMac, or iPod, you are not going to find any relevant examples.