Scandinavian outdoor brand, Helly Hansen, best known for apparel that is the optimal combination of purposeful design, protection and style, has chosen Microsoft Office 365 as its communication and social platform. A globally recognized ...
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Microsoft has entered into an agreement to buy Perceptive Pixel (PPI) a vendor of large-scale, multitouch displays, an acquisition Microsoft expects will boost its enterprise collaboration and communication offerings. PPI was founded in ...
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Microsoft is modifying its Office 365 sales agreement with partners to motivate them to push the product more aggressively, the company announced on Monday. Microsoft wants to make Office 365 easier to sell and more profitable for its ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft will lay out the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email server at a conference this week devoted to the product. On Monday, the company focused on security, ...
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The next version of Microsoft Office is complete and will start to reach enterprise customers next month, with general availability planned for early next year, Microsoft said Thursday. The Office engineering team marked the "release to ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft has announced the consumer and small-business prices for the new Office suite, which will be sold both via traditional single-device, perpetual licenses and via a new annual, multi-device cloud subscription. ...
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In a package aimed to mobilize small-business employees, Verizon Wireless has packaged a version of the Microsoft Office 365 online office suite to run on its own cellular services, pricing the service at US$6 per user per month. Verizon ...
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Toyota Motor Corporation is deploying Microsoft software across the globe through a mix of cloud and on-premise software for its 200,000 staff. The two-year project sees the car manufacturer's North American operation use cloud-based ...
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Microsoft will shine the spotlight this week on SharePoint's new 2013 version at a conference devoted to the popular collaboration server, but recently acquired Yammer may grab substantial attention. While Microsoft has detailed ...
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An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. As a result, Microsoft, which has been reticent to ...
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Windows users can expect a 15% increase in the cost of licensing key Microsoft products as the software giant raises its prices. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of per-user licensing of several products including ...
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Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy with 27 offices in seven countries. Founded in Bath in south-west England, Buro Happold has 1,500 staff worldwide and has worked on projects ranging from the O2 in London to the Louvre in Abu ...
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Polycom has signed an agreement with Ireland’s department of environment, community and local government to provide a unified communications solution to its staff. The department is under pressure to cut costs during difficult ...
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Engineering firm Mott MacDonald will roll out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy. More than 12,000 of the company's staff in 140 countries will have access to Microsoft ...
IDG News Service - The new version of Microsoft Office offers compelling enhancements to its capabilities and interface design, as well as improvements in cloud functionality that should make it a far better product than its predecessor. ...
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