Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail College students used to complain about dining-hall mystery meat. Their new gripe? Puny e-mail inboxes. Students have been howling that school e-mail accounts are too small to handle their daily deluge of mail and attachments. To address that problem, a growing number of colleges and universities are outsourcing their e-mail. The companies swooping in to manage student accounts for free? Google and Microsoft. Like search, software and operating systems, campuses are a burgeoning battleground for the tech titans. Jeremy Caplan, Time Magazine, August 17, 2009
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