<p>Staff members in the College's administrative departments will switch to Microsoft Online Services for e-mail, calendar and collaboration services beginning in the Fall, Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of information technology and the College's chief information officer, announced in a Dartmouth Daily Update bulletin on Wednesday. The transition is part of the College's long-term effort to replace the BlitzMail e-mail client and Oracle calendar program with a set of hosted online services.</p><p>Microsoft Online Services is an Internet-based system that includes tools for e-mail, calendar sharing, online collaboration and instant messaging.</p><p>The College's Task Force on E-mail and Technology had initially recommended to the Council on Computing last Spring that all Dartmouth departments adopt Google Apps as an e-mail and collaboration software solution. Computing Services, however, delayed the change after College President Jim Yong Kim advised the department in July to take more time in considering the task force's recommendation.</p><p>Kim, who had previously used Microsoft Exchange, requested that the staff in the President's Office be switched over to Microsoft Exchange when he assumed office, Waite-Franzen said.</p><p><a href="http://thedartmouth.com/2010/04/08/news/email">Keep reading...</a></p>