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.
Experts believe that Apple's iPhone, released in the UK and Germany on 9 November, is not secure enough to access corporate e-mail systems - a sentiment endorsed by O2, the sole British mobile telephone network providing the device.