Earlier this day I ran across the following article with a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/arizona_supreme_court_rules_metadata_is_a_public_record/

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s public records law requires disclosure of metadata embedded in the electronic records.

The Supreme Court ruled in the case of a demoted police officer who wanted access to metadata to see whether notes written by his supervisor were backdated to justify the job action, according to the Associated Press and the Arizona Republic. Metadata can show when an electronic document was created or revised, and how it was altered.

The ruling is believed to be the first state supreme court ruling on public records and metadata, AP says.

This morning at 11:30 Exchange 2010 reached its RTM status and is now on its way to GA later this fall/winter.

You can read more on it at the Microsoft Exchange team blog http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

 So I’ve been busy lately and some things weren’t really related to Archiving.  Yesterday I officially added US Citizenship to my list of accomplishments.

One of the main reasons for me to become a US Citizen (I get to keep the other one that I have so I have now 2 passports) is plain and simple.  In the US the voting/democracy system is different.  People get to vote regularly in general elections on things that directly impact them and their community.  After having lived in the US for many years I got more and more frustrated that I wasn’t allowed to voice my opinion on things that matter to me and impact the future of my family and children. Therefore I made the choice myself to go through the process.   The ceremony was pretty nice … had 147 people from 41 countries in the room which is a nice mix of people and it sort of reminded me of the fact that everyone in the US somehow is either a direct immigrant or a decedent of immigrants and we should be proud for having such diversity.

It makes some things easier … some things more complicated for me, but I’m glad I made the decision (plus I was actually able to register to vote in time for the November elections last night).

A little late with posting this one .. but interesting none the less.   Since MSFT already has search after the multi billion dollar purchase of FAST, it makes you wonder what else MSFT could be interested in.   Interwoven?

Autonomy jumps on Microsoft interest talk -traders

http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSLO11945020090924