Here's another disturbing example of 'judgment call': I spent my last year of high school in Paraguay, and in history we studied World War 2. There was no mention whatsoever of the Holocaust; I don't think it's any co-incidence that a lot of ex-Nazis fled to that part of South America after the war.

I think the most likely explanation is that PST files are deprecated in the next version of Exchange... they are pushing for people to move to server-integrated archiving instead. That will make PSTs somewhat redundant so why not open up the spec if it gets you warm fuzzies from the industry.
A comment from an Exchange developer on the EHLO blog:

"To put it simply you need to move away from PSTs. Larger mailboxes are the answer here. In addition you can leverage, single item recovery, and our messaging records management 2.0 with a personal archive mailbox to retain needed data and manage your quotas."

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/25/452632.aspx

I could definitely see myself using this. I don't think I would even particularly need a real keyboard - a virtual one using the touch interface would be fine. Come on people, use your imagination! Don't you want to at least try it as a replacement for all that ugly input hardware? :-)

A few people are talking about 'counties' and 'provinces' of New Zealand purchasing contracts.. for reference, our total population is less than half that of New York City, so we don't have provinces as such... maybe we should have boroughs ;-)

New Zealand does universal healthcare / income support pretty well. So does Australia, UK isn't bad, neither is Canada, I hear Cuba is pretty good too... you get the picture.