Microsoft heads to college to pitch Windows Live
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The decision to outsource the University of Texas-Pan American's 17,000 student e-mail accounts to Microsoft for free was a simple one for Gary Wiggins, the school's top IT administrator.
Students hated the existing system and its limited storage, lack of features -- like a calendar, for example -- and cumbersome user interface.
"The legacy system we were moving from was so bad that the new features were very well-accepted," said Wiggins, who is the school's vice president for information technology.
The school could still create e-mail addresses ending in utpa.edu and many students were already familiar with Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service.