<p>Sometimes an AAS news or flow item is as much about the community gathering data points as it is about delivering hard and fast news. That's very much the case here, with many conflicting reports coming in from around the globe this week that Exchange sync with Microsoft Hotmail and Live addresses (i.e. email, contact and calendar), plus POP3 access to Microsoft email systems, have both been broken. [Updated - see below]</p><p>Given that Google stopped Exchange access for its services for most people many months ago, having full email and PIM sync through to Microsoft's 'cloud' was a core part of many of our Symbian set-ups, so this week's reports are rather alarming.</p><p>Exchange is Microsoft's own property, so it's inconceivable that it would terminate something here on purpose. What's more likely is that some certificate in some versions of Symbian OS has expired, or perhaps a specific legacy Exchange protocol has been modified or deleted at Microsoft's end - it's all very strange. Which is why we need your help, as Symbian power users and (hopefully) with more knowledge of the inner workings of Exchange and Microsoft than ourselves, to chip in with theories and conclusions.</p><p>Zero messages, and, more worryingly, zero contacts on my Nokia 808 this morning!</p><p><a href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/flow/item/19230_The_next_thing_to_break_Micros.php">Keep reading...</a></p>