Comms-care launches wraparound services to push use of Surface among businesses
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Microsoft joins with old enemies to aid cloud development
It’s now peace with the Linux Foundation, Google, Apple and Samsung, for now anyway
Office 365 users suffer yet another network outage
And this is after Microsoft recently announced it was putting cloud service prices up by 22 percent
Microsoft Teams enhances Office 365 collaboration offering
Users can start voice and video meetings, as well as work with Microsoft Office documents
Vuzion and ICS join forces to give SMBs Office 365 boost
A ‘typical’ 50 seat FLEX customer provides resellers with an incremental £9,000 of revenue in year one with ‘healthy margins’
Microsoft competes with Apple with new Surface range
Microsoft takes on iMac with Surface Studio as it seeks to unlock users’ creativity with Windows 10
Microsoft stiffs enterprises with massive price increases
Price increases in cloud services approaching a fifth ‘because of the pound’s fall against the euro’ – but they’re delivered from UK data centres.
Microsoft: Lose $600m but it’s all good as cloud expands
Azure and Office 365 show the way forward but PC and mobile business slump
Trustmarque IT management deal at Virtual Lease Services
Capita firm will also manage an Office 365 migration on behalf of VLS
Microsoft updates Windows 10 and Office 365
IGNITE 2016: Office 365 gets a host of productivity and security tweaks
QBS offers channel 0 percent finance on Microsoft CRM
Microsoft NAV customers can now more easily upgrade thanks to Syscap financing deal
Microsoft’s Lumia smartphones will be dead by xmas
Redmond is expected to replace the Lumia with a Surface-branded Windows 10 phone
Microsoft opens UK cloud data centres backed by MoD
The Ministry of Defence and the NHS are amongst those signed up to use Microsoft’s UK-based cloud infrastructure
Microsoft Office rival OpenOffice ‘could be retired’
Lack of developers blamed, but others cite poor support from Apache for the open source productivity suite
Life’s a Stage for cloud service provider Proact
The Lion King, Aladdin and The Bodyguard musical firm opts for Azure solution
Microsoft adds bot to Office 365 with Genee acquisition
Redmond brings scheduling artificial intelligence to its cloud productivity suite
Microsoft extends Windows 7 and 8.1 support deadlines
But Redmond insists enterprise customers are moving to Windows 10 faster than any version of Windows
Met Police still has 27,000 PCs running Windows XP
Met Police’s insistence on running ageing Windows XP ‘putting Londoners’ personal data at risk’
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Anniversary update today
Update promises improved Task bar, Start Menu and Action Center, along with upgrades to the Cortana personal assistant
Almost two-thirds of EMEA firms avoid Windows 10
The free upgrade ends tomorrow but it hasn’t enthused many firms according to research
Microsoft posts mixed bag of results as cloud takes shape
Azure growth offsets poor performance in PC and phone market as Microsoft ups pressure on AWS
Why Microsoft will miss its 1bn Windows 10 devices target
ANALYSIS: Microsoft admits defeat and delays ‘one billion devices’ goal for Windows 10, but it shouldn’t be blaming its phone sales – it’s PCs that’s letting it down
Microsoft slammed for Azure Stack delay/partner selection
Microsoft reveals big Azure Stack changes, but will only sell platform through certified hardware partners
Microsoft launches Surface-as-a-Service partner options
Redmond also unveils Windows 10 Enterprise subscription packages as Windows Server 2016 gets launch date
Most companies still using ‘end of life’ Windows Server 2003
‘Lack of time’ and budget constraints cited by the Windows 2003 laggards, despite potential security threats
Microsoft overhauls enterprise licence buying
Enterprise Advantage makes an appearance in 2017 with other changes also coming
Windows 10 Anniversary Update to be released on 2 August
First major Windows 10 update finally gets a release date as Microsoft boosts security, accessibility and customisability
Capita acquires Trustmarque for £57m from Liberata
Librata’s holding company only bought the York-based company two years ago, but it offers synergy with Capita
Grim outlook for PCs not helped by free Windows 10
Prolonged slump of PC shipments will get worse, despite falling sales of both tablets and smartphones
Microsoft cloud services integrator Codit enters UK market
Belgian and Dutch partners target the market with the largest BizTalk opportunities
