[golemotron]

The easy answer is that they knew Apple was going to come out strong for encryption in the past few days and wanted to do a "me too."

[leejoramo]

Now if Apple does announce PGP/GPG support built into Mail in OS X and iOS, that would make this much more interesting.

I wonder if MS has made GPG support any easier in Outlook. Last I looked into it a year or two ago, it was hard to integrate unless you paid for the official PGP plug-in.

[evgen]

Given that one event involves coding, testing, and real deployment while the other is Tim Cook giving a speech where he spins another tale of "in the future..." BS that is in no way supported by anything real yet, I think you have the order backwards here.

[coldpie]

I'm totally OK with companies "me too"ing this particular feature.