Reply to post: Re: It's not Open Source it's an open standard

UK.gov's Open Source switch WON'T get rid of Microsoft, y'know

Tim Bates

Re: It's not Open Source it's an open standard

"My email that goes back 15 years that started life on a 50Myte hard drive in windows 95"

Somehow I doubt that size. Even my poor family had a 486 with a 120MB HDD years before Windows 95 came out.

But I agree on the point - you just copy everything over. I don't know of many businesses or government departments that just abandon their data as technology changes.

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