Microsoft Opened Messenger Connect to Android & iOS Developers: SkyDrive, Hotmail, Messenger

Microsoft has a curious set of disconnected multi-platform mobile strategies. For example, Microsoft licensed Exchange ActiveSync to Google. This let Google offer cloud based syncing of phones for email, calendar events and contacts before Microsoft itself. Google offered cloud based calendar and contacts sync for Windows Mobile before Microsoft. Microsoft has not shown any interest in making its Microsoft Office components available for Android or iPhone. And, yet, Microsoft’s Bing group has, I would argue, produced better Bing apps for the iPad than they have for Windows Phone.