Tube Lines is offering staff big discounts on Microsoft Office 2007 to build up support for its migration to the Windows Vista operating system next year.
Eduserv has signed an agreement with Microsoft to enable all UK universities and colleges, and not just the biggest, to get preferential pricing for Microsoft software.
More than 40 global user firms have set up a standard to test secure programming skills for Java programmers. This follows last month's move by software suppliers under the SafeCode initiative.
Microsoft Office 2007 is the latest upgrade for the Microsoft Office family of products, and brings new productivity and application integration features.