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• Qld Education Dept picks Win7 too

  The Queensland Department of Education will be installing Windows 7 on all of its computers within the next 12 months.

• August start for delayed Qld mail project

  Queensland's massive Exchange 2007 consolidation will finally move ahead with a pilot in August after the state election and department consolidations caused delays, according to a state estimates hearing on Tuesday.

• Ex-Qld CIO quits Microsoft

  Peter Grant, the Queensland Government's former chief information officer, has left Microsoft after just 16 months with the software giant.

• UQ mid-way through huge Exchange migration

  The University of Queensland has moved 70,000 email accounts to a hosted Microsoft Exchange platform, with plans to complete 170,000 more in the next few months.

• Qld pushes Microsoft into bulk deal

  The Queensland Government has signed a whole of government memorandum of understanding with Microsoft for the future purchase of software and services from the Redmond-based giant.

Blogs (2)

• Cop it sweet

  Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

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  The pendulum of shared services

  Spend enough time in the IT industry and you'll soon realise that many of the new trends we see are cyclical: fat vs. thin clients; various development methodologies falling in and out of fashion; and shared vs. distributed services.

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• How open source is losing the charity battle

  Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.

• Q&A: Google's Alan Noble on the future Web

  Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.

• Green your datacentre or it may go dark

  Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

• 2007: How was it for security?

  Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

• Despite open-source ideology, QUT embraces Microsoft integration

  Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology, which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.

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  AusCERT: Qld Police fight the Nigerian 419 fraudsters

  Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, reveals that hundreds and possibly thousands of Australians have fallen victim to the infamous Nigerian 419 scam.

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