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Microsoft goes open source with Outlook PST format

It seems with each passing day Microsoft gets closer to offering an openly documented and interoperable platform. Working with Exchange for a number of years, many customers notice that Exchange Server is a remarkably well-documented product, not only in terms of the feature documentation but also its protocols such as Exchange ActiveSync and Messaging Application […]

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Google Calendar outage an excuse for missing meetings today?

News.com reports today: Users relying on Google Calendar have good excuse for missing meetings Thursday a.m., as company scrambles to fix widespread outage. The outage, reported by Google on its Google Apps Dashboard at 8:30 AM, is still being investigated as I write. Another reminder of how disruptive “cloud-only” services can be for an organization. […]

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Microsoft to end newsgroup support in favor of forums

Starting next month, Microsoft will be ending support for NNTP newsgroups in favor of web-based forums. This marks an end of an era for many. Although I’ve preferred newsgroups over the web-based forums for a long time, the forums have matured significantly over the years and now present a great user experience. Over the past […]

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Zenprise as starship Enterprise: Meet Spock & Captain Kirk

“TWO ENTREPRENEURS in Fremont are hoping to reach ‘Star Trek’ status with their e-mail troubleshooting software”, starts this report on InsideBayArea.com and in Bay Area newspapers. It’s titled “E-mail doctors arrive on Zenprise to help“. The mission: “To boldly go where no software has gone before”… I’m mostly clueless about Startrek – memories of watching […]

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