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Freeing My Email: Open Source And Industry Standard As A Matter Of Course
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| Part of my motivation to 'jump ship', I admit, is also a 'freedom of
| information' matter of principle. Microsoft made it hard enough to extract
| calendar and contacts data from Outlook, as my previous writeups have
| exemplified, but migrating stored emails elsewhere (heaven forbid, to a
| standard format like mbox) is darn near impossible without hefty third-party
| assistance.
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http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/400041640.html
Recent:
AP dumps Microsoft
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| Until now AP used Microsoft's MSN media player to distribute videos. Vole
| flogged ads alongside the material, sharing the revenue with AP.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/ap-dumps-microsoft
All Russian Schools to Use Free Software
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| I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how
| difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the entire
| educational system. The pathetic state here is highlighted by contrast with
| Russia, which is making amazing strides in rolling out open source to
| schools.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1423&blogid=14
Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps
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| Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving
| its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO
| for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the
| organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based
| offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a
| not-insignificant win for Google, and yet another blow to Microsoft's
| incumbent Office suite, as a surge of web apps steadily replaces their
| desktop counterparts.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081012-washington-dc-latest-to-drop-microsoft-for-web-apps.html
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