When E-Mail Is Outsourced
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| The senior product manager for Microsoft’s Live @ edu program, Bruce
| Gabrielle, said the company has some 450 higher education clients, which
| ballooned from 300 since the end of June. “A lot of awareness is spreading
| virally,” he said.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email
Related:
Welcome to college, here's your Windows Live account
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| Microsoft, in an attempt to spread the word about Windows Live, has struck
| a deal with 72 colleges all across the world. And what is this said deal?
| The colleges have agreed to let Microsoft host their students'
| e-mail accounts.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/23/3719
Gates demands better schools as Gates-backed school closes
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| But just before the Gates editorial appeared, word broke that one of
| the hi-tech schools in the heart of Silicon Valley will be shut down
| because of a lack of funding and students.
|
| The board of directors behind the High Tech High in Redwood City
| -- the home of Oracle -- last week voted unanimously to mothball
| the school less than two years after it opened.
|
| [...]
|
| Parents and students broke down in tears during a meeting about the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| school, saying they were promised a five-year commitment to keep the
| project going.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/27/gates_school/
Principal Resigns at Phila.'s School of the Future
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| District officials admit to being taken by surprise last month, when Shirley
| Grover announced her resignation for personal reasons as principal of the
| Microsoft-backed High School of the Future.
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http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/798387.php?contentType=4&contentId=789006
Microsoft plans innovative new school in Knowsley says Bill Gates
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| Tailored to meet local community needs, the Innovative Schools will be
| rolled out in 12 locations around the world including United Kingdom,
| Ireland, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Qatar, Canada, Mexico, Brazil,
| Chile and Hong Kong.
|
| Microsoft's innovative Schools initiative works with governments,
| teachers and partners around the world to modernise schools to meet
| the challenges of 21st Century learning. The initiative was initially
| used to develop the Philadelphia School of the Future, opened in the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| United States September last year.
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http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7607
http://tinyurl.com/3dlthl
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
|
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
French students to get open-source software on USB key
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| French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks
| loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school
| students at the start of the next school year.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070202/tc_infoworld/85707
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