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Fancy signing into Windows 10 with Office 365? Hmm, not quite yet
Hands On Among the most promising features of Windows 10 is Azure Active Directory join, which lets you sign into Windows with an Office 365 account – but Microsoft still has work to do before this presents the seamless experience you might expect.There...
New Office 365 E5 Plan
Office 365 is in a state of constant evolution, so it’s not at all surprising that Microsoft would attempt to capture some of that work in a new plan (literally, a menu of options sold to customers). At this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in...
Office 365 Prices Rise in Euro Zone. Are we next?
Microsoft has confirmed that Office 365 customers in Britain will again dodge a cloudy price hike bullet that customers in parts of mainland Europe and further afield are facing from next month.Businesses in the Euro zone and those in Denmark, Sweden, Australia and...
UK Will Be ‘Largest Single Data Centre Market In Europe’ By 2020
The UK will be the biggest market in Europe for data centres by 2020, according to a new report.The report, from Tariff Consultancy Ltd (TCL), also predicts that data centre space and power in Europe will increase by almost 20 percent from 2015 to...
Microsoft adjusts Azure prices, but UK customers can rest easy
Microsoft is revising the price of its Azure cloud computing services, apparently in response to fluctuating global exchange rates.The good news for UK customers is that they will not be affected, but the company is coy about where exactly the changes in price will be...
Microsoft Office 365 given security clearance for NHS email use
Microsoft Office 365 has achieved the English Health and Social Care Secure Email ISB 1596 standard, which allows Outlook to be used for emails containing personal and sensitive data.ISB 1596 requires email service providers to meet a set of independently audited...
Microsoft Azure Named a Leader in Gartner’s Public Cloud Storage Services for Second Consecutive Year
Gartner research recently published their Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Storage Services and recognized Microsoft Azure as a leader for the second year in a row based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. This comes at the heel of recent independent...
Box adds Office (365) Online to its Web User Interface
Box today followed rival Dropbox to integrate Microsoft's Office Online with its cloud storage service."Today, we're introducing Box for Office Online, making it easier than ever for our customers to create and manage their Word docs, PowerPoint presentations and...
Huawei in the news with Vodafone partnership and Deutsche Telecom public Cloud service expansion
Deutsche Telekom - German network Deutsche Telekom has announced an expansion to its work with Chinese giant Huawei, with T-Systems, its IT arm, will now be offering services such as infrastructure, platforms and applications that can are accessible via the...
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 release date as 29 July
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be available as a free download from 29 July to anyone with a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 machine. The free download will be on offer for one year.Reports emerged over the weekend suggesting that this would be the launch date...