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Open Source and Microsoft Free

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 7, 2007

“A few weeks ago I posted a few articles about Open Source
(Still afraid of Open Source?, Eating my own dog food, and Open
Source and loving it!). I have now been Microsoft-Free at work for
about 7 weeks. I have also found solutions for almost all of the
initial hurdles I encountered in the first week. Here is the
list:

  1. “Email – I now have Thunderbird working flawlessly as my email
    client in sync with Exchange. I do need to talk to the Exchange
    admin to change a setting on the Exchange Server so I can use the
    Calendar functionality with Sunbird. I am currently use Webmail for
    my calendar…”


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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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