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BETT 2012: Microsoft UK will take Office 365 to schools

...Web Developer, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and SQL Server. The Microsoft UK Education Team's UK Schools Blog provides further information. @jackschofield Read more

13 January, 2012

Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

The cost of most Microsoft UK volume licences will rise by up to 33.5 percent from... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Microsoft: Schools are failing to teach IT skills

Microsoft: Schools are failing to teach IT skills

...and rarely give students IT skills, a result that has surprised teachers. Microsoft UK education director Steve Beswick talked to ZDNet UK about the survey... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...signed a confidential three-year licensing agreement with Buying Solutions called the Microsoft UK Public Sector Business and Services Agreement (MBSA). Microsoft is currently negotiating... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft execs: paid by results

Why does Microsoft make the decisions it makes? If you ever wonder that, you're asking the wrong questions, because... Read more

27 July, 2011
Why pick Office 365 over free cloud tools?

Why pick Office 365 over free cloud tools?

...Google and the rest of the cloud world? ZDNet UK talked to Microsoft UK's managing director Gordon Frazer and to Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate... Read more

16 July, 2011 by Mary Branscombe

It's 1 am - do you know where your data is?

...Zack Whittaker who got the answer we'd been waiting for, from Microsoft UK's MD Gordon Frazer at the Office 365 launch event a... Read more

13 July, 2011

Office 365: Cheat Sheet

...the storage and movement of data in different regions around the world. Microsoft UK MD Gordon Frazer has said Microsoft can't guarantee data won... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

Office 365 launch puts emphasis on small businesses

...the cost of running their IT services," Gordon Frazer, managing director of Microsoft UK, said. "We think small businesses have an enormous amount to gain... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

Government IT Agenda Setters 2010: How was it compiled?

...managing director, Capita IT Services Richard Holway, chairman, TechMarketView Dr Nicola Hodson, Microsoft UK public sector chief Mark Lyons, UK lead, Accenture Health and Public... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

Windows Phone 7 will sync to Mac, Microsoft confirms

...to use Zune on their Macs to sync with [Windows Phone 7]," Microsoft UK's Oded Ran said in the tweet. For more on this... Read more

13 October, 2010 by Ina Fried

Internet Explorer 9 beta arrives

...all", said Ian Moulster, product manager for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at Microsoft UK. The user interface in the IE 9 beta focuses on essential... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Simon Bisson

Microsoft releases final pre-beta preview of IE9

...final version of the browser will be released. According to Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's web product manager, there have been 2.4 million downloads... Read more

4 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Microsoft aims to reduce 'complex' software licensing

...Microsoft UK's managing director Gordon Frazer agreed that the company's software... Read more

9 July, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Microsoft cracks down on 25 UK counterfeiters

...selling machines pre-loaded with non-genuine Windows software, a spokesperson for Microsoft UK said on Tuesday. Four eBay-based sellers were also identified in... Read more

6 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

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