"The Windows 10 update cliff is coming in October 2025. We've explained why that's a big deal, and we have a comprehensive guide to updating to Windows 11 (recently updated to account for changes in Windows 11 24H2) so you can keep getting security updates, whether you're on an officially supported PC or not.

But this is more than just a theoretical exercise; I've been using Windows 11 on some kind of "unsupported" system practically since it launched to stay abreast of what the experience is actually like and to keep tabs on whether Microsoft would make good on its threats to pull support from these systems at any time.

Now that we're three years in, and since I've been using Windows 11 24H2 on a 2012-era desktop and laptop as my primary work machines on and off for a few months now, I can paint a pretty complete picture of what Windows 11 is like on these PCs. As the Windows 10 update cliff approaches, it's worth asking: Is running "unsupported" Windows 11 a good way to keep an older but still functional machine running, especially for non-technical users?"

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

Microsoft started the war against Linux at least as far back as 1996. It has been going on for 15 years or more:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/67a9771825742ab0

Microsoft doesn't even deny any of the tactics below. In fact, they have defended these activities in court hearings and commission hearings as "typical of the PC industry", because they control the PC industry.

Début ce lundi de l'université d'été de l'e-éducation. Un évènement majeur pour le lobbying de Microsoft, qui cible depuis plusieurs années l'Éducation nationale. Enquête et infographie pour tout savoir des campagnes d'influence du marchand de logiciels en direction des écoles de la République. Bonne rentrée.

(Québec) Le renouvellement de 738 000 ordinateurs personnels dans l'administration publique québécoise est l'occasion rêvée pour le gouvernement de «réduire sa dépendance à Microsoft» et de réaliser d'énormes économies grâce au logiciel libre, estime l'opposition péquiste à l'Assemblée nationale.

Marie Malavoy, porte-parole en matière de recherche, et son collègue Sylvain Simard, critique relativement au Conseil du trésor, ont réclamé vendredi que Québec profite de «l'occasion extraordinaire pour faire une place de choix au logiciel libre».

Access all your contact information (GAL) from your Exchange server.

Want to lookup your colleague’s information in Exchange but find your Android phone lacking?

Unfortunately the Global Address List (GAL) lookup currently available in Android is limited in functionality. It only looks up email addresses and does not return anything more. This could be frustrating when you are trying to use your phone to look up your colleague’s phone number or office location.

This application looks up the GAL contact database, and returns ALL data corresponding to the contact that is available on the server. It also allows you to save the contact information retrieved to your phone for easy access.

This app supports GAL lookups on

• Exchange 2003
• Exchange 2007
• Exchange 2010
• Google Apps for Business / Education
• Zimbra

License: Apache 2.0
Source and apk:https://code.google.com/p/corporateaddressbook/
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vivekiyer.GAL&hl=en

(Québec) Plus de 1200 employés de Revenu Québec ont pu acheter à des fins personnelles, pour seulement 11 $, la suite Microsoft Office Professional, d'une valeur de 669 $. C'est donc un avantage de plus de 800 000 $ que Microsoft avait consenti, avant la fin de 2011, aux employés de l'Agence québécoise du revenu.
[...]
[L]a région administrative de Paris (Île-de-France) a annoncé qu'elle offrirait une nouvelle version de la suite LibreOffice aux lycéens, à leurs parents, leurs professeurs et au personnel administratif, soit près d'un million d'utilisateurs, pour la rentrée 2012.

Here is a copy of the License agreement that I received after I registered to MSDNAA ELMS. I got the keys for so called famous M$ products. Lets have a review of it shall we?

The Peruvian government and Microsoft signed an agreement to use Windows XP and Office, as well as other educational resources in the laptops as part of an OLPC pilot program, minister of education José Chang announced last week (18 September).

The move makes Peru the first country worldwide to test the change in the operating system of the OLPC devices.

Chang justified the change from Linux to Windows by saying public school students in Peru "need to use the most modern tools with the most global use".

SOGo Users,

This is a follow up on from this thread.
'[SOGo] Why not move from Funambol to Z-Push? Many features will be obtained.', http://www.mail-archive.com/ users@sogo.nu/msg08451.html
even farther from this reply, http://www.mail-archive.com/ users@sogo.nu/msg08828.html, on the same suject.

I am pleased to announce sogosync, It is an unmodified Z-Push from svn upstream (1.5.x branch) with caldav and cardav backend.

So far it is a read-only carddav and caldav and support multiple addressbook and calendar.
I have also made the configuration easier with preconfigure file working against http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca.
'public' addressbook are skip as they are provide by LDAP Z-push backend.
Email (IMAP) and GAL (Global Address List) support are provide by standard Z-push backend.

It has been tested on iOS 5.0.1.

It is Open Source software released under AGPLv3 and host on Github.com.

Please feel free to feedback, contribute to the code, sponsor or donate.

More on https://github.com/xbgmsharp/sogosync

Kind regards,
Francois

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Sylvain Boily d'Avencall, il m'avait parlé de ce vidéo que j'ai enfin trouvé. Version libre ici: http://www.tinyogg.com/watch/HlhgS/