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In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. November 2012 has been given as According to an estimate internal email circulated to [[4Help]] employees, the tentative date for the forced transition to Google Appsmigration is November 12, although no date has been set2012.
==Controversies==
* Some users are unhappy that they must use a separate mail password from their PID password.
* Users are limited to 25 GB of storage for their mail and documents, but this is still an improvement over the existing system where mail expired after 30 days.
* Some users have previously reported that a third-party Gmail extension is enabled by default which scans the text of users' email messages. This is contradictory to the VT Mail policy of not having VT email mined for data by third parties.
* Users with existing Google accounts using a VT email address are forced to move or merge their existing accounts due to a namespace conflict.
==External links==
* http://www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTech/comments/11psjj/does_anyone_know_when_the_deadline_is_to_switch/
* http://going.google.vt.edu/