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Microsoft's New Problem: The French Military
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| Microsoft recently lost one of its key open-
| source advocates when Sam Ramji, the company's
| senior director of Platform Strategy,
| officially left to become interim president of
| the CodePlex Foundation on Sept. 25 (although
| considering that CodePlex is Microsoft's open-
| source software project hosting repository, I'm
| sort of confused as to how Ramji "left
| Microsoft").
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/microsofts_new_problem_the_french_military.html
He left because he was hated and the Free software community did
not accept the bullies he worked with (e.g. lawsuits against Melco and TomTom).
Recent:
French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war
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| A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this
| week contains code from an unusual source --
| the French military, which decided the open
| source product was more secure than Microsoft's
| rival Outlook.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B91G020091210
French military helps power Thunderbird
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/french-military-helps-power-thunderbird-657260
Thunderbird 3 Officially Released with New Features, Improved Look
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| Thunderbird 3.0 comes packed with fantastic
| new features, including a new tabbed
| interface à la Firefox and other web
| browsers, a beautiful and powerful new
| search and filtering tool that lets you
| pinpoint any email, and a totally
| streamlined email setup tool that'll get
| your Gmail or other accounts up and running
| with Thunderbird in a jiffy.
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http://lifehacker.com/5421721/thunderbird-3-officially-released-with-new-features-improved-look
Mozilla lets Thunderbird 3 fly
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| One feature that isn't included is the
| calendaring add-on, Lightning. Originally,
| Mozilla had planned to bake the extension
| into the program, but decided back in
| February 2009 to change course and leave it
| up to users to download. Although
| Thunderbird natively comes with Microsoft
| Exchange support, there's no calendar and
| therefore no meeting support in the default
| Thunderbird installation. Along with
| Lightning, there's an essential Google
| Calendar add-on for Lightning that gives
| Google users calendar support in Lightning.
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http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10411854-12.html
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