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Submission + - The darkside of Google taking over your ISP's emai

Submitted by
SlinkySausage
SlinkySausage writes: "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email system to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to rapidly grow its userbase (it trails a distant third to Yahoo Mail with only 51million users compared to Yahoo's 250million and Hotmail's 228 million users.) There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. But APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the "dark side" of the deal, not least the fact that it simply reinforces the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it much harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes up. Question is: is a 10GB ISP mailbox for every ISP user a sufficient benefit to outweigh the numerous downsides?"
Microsoft

Submission + - Indian retailers raided by Microsoft

Submitted by
slashthedot
slashthedot writes: "Microsoft caught some Indian retailers selling pirated copies by sending a dummy customer asking for a copy of Windows to be installed on their PC. The retailers say Microsoft products are too highly priced for Indian market, so many people won't be interested in buying original copies at that price. They even go on to say they are promoting MS software in this way.
One retailer was heard saying:
"Since we are are not charging anything extra for installing the software, it means that we are actually not trading in pirated software. For us this is just a sewa (selfless act) that we are offering to our customers. Besides, the pricing of their operating systems is way too high for the Indian markets."

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Operating Systems

Submission + - Linux Training

Submitted by Spritzer
Spritzer writes: I work for a rather large corporation with multiple divisions around the world. Nearly all user computers in the company are Windows systems, and there is no plan to move to Linux in the future. However, a good many of our products are now designed to run on Linux systems for security and stability purposes. Obviously, the design/development teams are knowledgeable in the use of Linux operating systems.Unfortunately my field service teams are not, and their is no in-house training program. This has begun to affect our ability to provide efficient, quality service to customers when in the field.

What training services have you used in the past to get people trained in the basics of using? I'd prefer to stay away from online, self-paced courses and get my people some hands on training with an instructor.

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