Microsoft Makes Outlook Tools Open Source | Linux Today

Microsoft Makes Outlook Tools Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 26, 2010

[ Thanks to James
Maguire
for this link. ]

“Microsoft is taking more steps to make it easier for
enterprise and independent developers to create software that runs
on top of its Outlook e-mail file format, releasing a pair of
associated tools as open source.

“The move follows on Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) recent public
release of the data formats used for its Outlook e-mail client
personal folders.

“Now, the software giant is moving to provide tools to augment
the task developing software that uses the Outlook file format,
known as PST. The two new tools it released Monday are the File
Format Software Development Kit (SDK) and the PST Data Structure
View Tool.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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