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Microsoft to 'open source' its Outlook PST files

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Microsoft to 'open source' its Outlook PST files

The Microsoft Subnet blog reports: "Microsoft announced Monday that it would be opening its Outlook's PST file format by publishing documentation. Each time in the past that Microsoft offered to publish technical specifications, the company was responding to a bullwhip wielded by the European Commission. Is this time different? Not at all." Read full story

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