Championing ICT in London's voluntary and community sector
Nov 17 2010
Microsoft is hosting a free ICT learning event at its London offices on Monday 13th December 2010. Speakers from voluntary sector partners and Microsoft will provide briefings on key technology solutions as well as IT skills ideas to assist charities working in employability or digital inclusion. The aim is to provide attendees with knowledge, ideas [...]
Nov 27 2009
Microsoft is inviting charities who currently or plan to provide IT skills training to support individuals into employment, to the launch of the Microsoft Britain Works NGO programme. The event is free to attend and will take place between 9:30 and 3:00 on Monday 07 December in London @ The Ruebens Hotel, 39 Buckingham Palace [...]
Apr 01 2008
A quick line on UK recipients of the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Program….. Application criteria and process here. Black Country Consortium The Black Country Consortium (BCC) project is a long-term commitment supported by Microsoft to develop a stronger knowledge economy by improving the skills of the current labor force and providing basic skills to the unemployed. [...]
Oct 15 2007
Over on Kablenet, Liberal Democrat MP Dr John Pugh (nice open source web site, sir) believes that the government is unwittingly creating a Microsoft monopoly in its delivery of online services because, in many cases, the public can only access them by using Windows software. In a Commons debate last week, Pugh went on to [...]
Jun 25 2007
In a late breaking story – that many will regard as good news for the open source community – Friday’s The Register warns that Microsoft is unexpectedly withdrawing the Microsoft Authorised Refurbishment (MAR) program. Under a special licence, authorised refurbishers could install Windows XP or Windows 2000 and Office XP Standard as one bundled package [...]
Jun 21 2007
Microsoft has announced that it will stop selling Office 2003 as of 30 June 2007. The company is understandably keen to move businesses towards upgrading to Office 2007, and expects it will take retailers and manufacturers some time to exhaust existing stocks of Office 2003. Microsoft has also said it will continue to offer support [...]
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