Re: [LUG] [Fwd: Outlook set for more open future]

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Beard wrote:
> Julian Hall wrote:
> > 'Microsoft has announced plans to open up the format of the data 
> > files used by its e-mail program Outlook.'
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8327399.stm
> Sounds promising.  Might make it easier to recover mail, say if a 
> Windows machine goes pop and you're going to replace it with Linux, 
> then maybe the likes of Thunderbird and Evolution (or KMail/whatever 
> KDE uses etc) could just import the contents of the PST file without 
> it having to be copied to a Windows machine and imported that way (I'm 
> assuming it isn't already possible to import mail from a PST into 
> Thunderbird/Evolution/whatever running on Linux).
>
> Rob
Also sounds like Microsoft pre-empting another anti-competition law suit 
if they show they are planning to open up Outlook?

Julian

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