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• Tips for minimising the impact of the Microsoft Office price rise

  Microsoft has “adjusted” prices with Office 2019, making it more expensive to buy on-premise versions of its products  Continue Reading

• The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

  Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules  Continue Reading

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

  There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SharePoint: Why are we still hearing so much about adoption issues?

  The SharePoint business system is too important to be left to IT; the whole business need to embrace it so it's more than just shelfware  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security on a shoestring budget

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading

• The state of the VDI industry in 2014

  There were two major technological advancements last year that make virtual desktops much more attractive than in the past  Continue Reading

• User acceptance testing needs real training, not just a short course

  In spite of its importance, user acceptance testing (UAT) is often chaotic, problematic and ineffective  Continue Reading

• Windows 8 - the challenge of moving to a new operating system

  Microsoft launched its Windows 8 operating system (OS) in 2012, promising manifold benefits - but what are the challenges of moving OS?  Continue Reading

• Windows 8 – Beauty and the Beast?

  Quocirca analyst, Clive Longbottom, looks at whether corporates should consider deploying Windows 8.  Continue Reading

• Review: Windows tablets in the enterprise

  Tony Lock has been using a Windows tablet for a year and finds that it has a lot to offer businesses  Continue Reading

• Does Microsoft need to change its policy on Windows upgrade pricing ?

  Microsoft will needs to reduce the cost of Windows upgrades if it is to conquer the tablets market, writes Andrew Buss.  Continue Reading

• Why great companies die - repeatedly - and is Microsoft next?

  The Penny Black stamp revolutionised comunications - and taught us lessons that some IT giants today are failing to learn.  Continue Reading

• Government open standards proposal fails the 'so what?' test

  The consultation on open standards in government IT is generating a lot of discussion, much of which misses an important point: so what?  Continue Reading

• Supporting user-centric computing

  User virtualisation can make life easier for IT departments and users alike.  Continue Reading

• Unhealthy tale of NAO report

  The National Audit Office is a great British institution - or was.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft’s metrics mean business

  Microsoft unveils plans for performance planning software  Continue Reading

• Microsoft plans route through the desktop

  Windows users will need to assess carefully how specialised their content needs are before lining up for the software giant's new content platform, says Jim Murphy  Continue Reading

• Check out the changes in Windows Vista

  Microsoft has released the first beta test version of Windows Vista, formerly known as Longhorn, and it would be a good idea for companies to try it as soon as possible. Compared with the simple transitions from Windows NT4 to 2000 to XP Pro, it may...  Continue Reading

• Time to demand accountability

  Last week public spending watchdog the National Audit Office published yet another report that showed that IT-related projects...  Continue Reading

• Prepare to install Windows XP SP2

  Microsoft has finally released the long-delayed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, and it had people working over the bank holiday to...  Continue Reading

• Customer will be king

  Microsoft cost cuts reflect changing balance of power  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: If at first you don't succeed, pretend you did

  Microsoft's decision to declare competitive advantage in its Trustworthy Computing initiative requires an ability to believe that...  Continue Reading

• Users want Windows they can see through

  It should be possible to write a new operating system for £165m - or at least to debug one. However, that is how much Microsoft...  Continue Reading

• Wild West tactic hides the truth

  Microsoft's offer of a £300,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the computer hackers responsible...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: Goodbye 'Patch Wednesday'

  Microsoft's latest intiative to replace weekly patching with monthly patching may be more benefical to users in the battle to...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: Will the UK software industry outlive the hamster?

  The UK software industry is slowly disappearing and its only a matter of time until Microsoft moves in to fill in the void, says...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Will you put your trust in Microsoft?

  Hard-hitting IT columnist Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Microsoft makes mistakes. It's a...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the New Year:Money, Microsoft and making it through the gloom

  Simon Moores posits dramatic new moves from Microsoft as the IT industry copes with another hard year.  Continue Reading

• OFT should help firms

  The Data Protection Act is already causing enough headaches for UK businesses. So it is unforgivable that red tape at the Office...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Spam rationing - it's about time

  Hard-hitting IT columnist Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Microsoft's announcement that it will...  Continue Reading

• Palladium: prison or protector?

  Like it or not, there is little chance you will escape Microsoft's latest security initiative.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft and Liberty Alliance are hijacked on the road to Damascus

  The time has come for the industry to take security and availability seriously. So says Microsoft "visionary" Bill Gates.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft defeat would be a travesty

  We are now coming to the end of the dissenting US states' attempt to achieve a travesty of justice in the last round of the...  Continue Reading

• Guess who hates Opera?

  Microsoft's redesigned MSN hit the high notes when the Opera browser tried to get in  Continue Reading

• Still locked in behind double-glazed Windows?

  So maybe the "one-armed man" did it after all and what should have been the front-page news of Microsoft's historic antitrust...  Continue Reading

• Consult the expert - Worth learning Lotus R5 and AIX?

  I am an IT contractor performing installation and upgrades mainly on desktops using Windows NT4 and 2000. I am considering...  Continue Reading

• Win 2000 outsells NT

  Sales of Windows 2000 will outnumber sales of Windows NT by 1.7 million in the fourth quarter  Continue Reading

• Cybercops should resist seven-year itch

  
  
  We told you the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP)Act was a bad idea and now here's the proof. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has...  Continue Reading

• Whitehall IT reform on track

  
  
  John Riley

  Two thirds of the Cabinet Office recommendations proposed this June in a bid to prevent public sector IT disasters will be...

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• Revolution is more evolution at Microsoft

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  A recent interview with Bill Gates in a leading financial publication proved as interesting as it was...

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• Users sigh as captains' fists fly

  
  
  High-profile fisticuffs between the captains of the supply industry, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates, Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison, is all...  Continue Reading

• Will SP1 for Win 2000 make life sweet for Microsoft?

  As predicted and eagerly expected, Windows 2000's first service pack (SP1) has arrived  Continue Reading

• The Microsoft paradox: punished for being too successful

  Bill Gates and Microsoft are being penalised for being too successful. Gates is a good businessman and, as such, he wants to grow...  Continue Reading

• Stop trying to fix a Window that isn't broken

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  I don't know what to say to IT people who tell me that Microsoft Windows crashes once or twice or six...

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• Users don't need scripts

  
  
  Audiences around the world have heard Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tell them how his great company will "empower" them.

  Empowerment is a strong concept....

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• Microsoft break-up will not benefit the users

  Microsoft, which the US Department of Justice wants broken up, now has to tell District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson what he...  Continue Reading

• Anti-trust remedy splits Microsoft into two parts

  
  
  David Bicknell

  Users have welcomed the US Department of Justice's plans to split Microsoft into two companies - one focusing on...

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• Users call on Microsoft to stop wasting money

  
  
  Users have told Microsoft to accept defeat in its Department of Justice case, and spend the time and money it will save by delivering stable...  Continue Reading

• Computer weekly comment

  
  
  It may take several years before the fate of Microsoft is finally decided, but breaking up this software superpower is not the right...  Continue Reading

• When to implement Windows 2000

  Is it better to be an early adopter of Windows 2000 or better to wait until its weaknesses are known so that you can use this...  Continue Reading

• Opening Windows: the threat from Open Source

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