My university has partnered with Microsoft to offer its students a free version of Microsoft Office 2016 for the duration of their stay. Great, as I was still using the old Office 2011 to read and write the occasional document. To my dismay, however...
We've been using standardised protocols like IMAP to keep our mailboxes in sync between many devices for well over a decade. Our calendars and contacts haven't been as lucky; though there have been proprietary protocols to keep our data centralised (…