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Fri, 27 June 2008
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Gates to leave Microsoft on Friday

Well, um, I'd like world peace...

Bill Gates will be leaving Microsoft on Friday to concentrate on ridding the world of disease, but leaves behind a company that will too have its challenges - namely trying to keep dominance with Google hot on their heels.

Just as Gates, 52, supplanted IBM in the '80s and '90s by banking on personal computers and ensuring they all ran Microsoft operating systems, Google could relegate Microsoft to relative obscurity by cementing itself as the operating system of the web.

And Microsoft's other cash cow, Office, is being threatened by legions of free office suites including Google's online equivalents of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, which are challenging Office's consumer market share and already making inroads into enterprise.

- SMH

Closer to home, the NSW Department of Education and Training has announced that it will dump Outlook in schools for student email, instead replacing it with Gmail accounts for all.

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