Our weekly round-up of UK IT industry news including the top five stories on ComputerWeekly.com last week, and a look ahead to the focus of next week's issue. This week's stories include how tool hire firm Speedy Hire expects to save £6m over the next six years after rationalising the way it licenses Microsoft software.
Microsoft has released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 via its Windows Update service, but will not start automatically sending it to users until "mid-April".
Financial services provider Old Mutual has used an application testing tool to ensure its migration to Windows Vista across 15,000 desktops runs smoothly.