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Surface Hub is big. It’s as if Microsoft got hold of a 10-inch Windows tablet and injected a magic electronic growth substance that blew the device up to 55-inches, and then again to 84-inches. Surface Hub is so much like having a gigantic tablet computer on your wall, but it’s more. It’s intuitive to use....

Turn your desk into a Studio. Surface Studio is a whole new class of device, one designed for the creative process. The 28” PixelSense™ Display floats like a sheet of suspended pixels giving you a huge canvas for all kinds of work. Use it upright or draw on it like a drafting table, breathing life...

INTRODUCTION Cloud services play a critical role in helping organisations accomplish their digital transformations. A deeper partnership with Microsoft is a great option for businesses looking to either simply lower the cost of data storage by moving it to the cloud, or in a more sophisticated use case—migrating on-premises Exchange to Exchange online in Office...

The office 2007 desktop suite and related server products leave the extended support phase of their life cycle in 2017.  Organisations that still have these software products deployed on-premise should migrate to later versions of the products, still within mainstream support or risk encountering incompatibility issues and security risks. The Office 2007 suite and the...

Vision and Overview Some of the most productive work happens when you can harness the collective knowledge and skills of a group. When you bring the right backgrounds and experience together, suddenly the most challenging problems feel like they can be solved. But the way employees work is changing: Teams are more global, more dispersed and...

Effective February 6th, Microsoft have announced significant price reductions on certain products within their Azure Cloud platform. The reductions come in the wake of Microsoft’s recent price increases in the UK, and in many cases completely mitigate the price increase, or reduce it further still. Examples of the price changes can be seen in the...

Last year, Citrix and Microsoft demonstrated how a strategic partnership should work by providing a sweeping roadmap that includes new services and powerful innovations. Our collaboration now extends across our Citrix portfolio and reinforces our joint commitment to help our partners and our customers migrate to the cloud. Our partners and customers are counting on...

From February, Microsoft will be ending pay-as-you-go Azure access for new customers on the Products and Services Agreement. Existing customers currently purchasing Azure on a pay-as-you-go basis through the MPSA will be allowed to continue to do so, but new customers seeking the payment plan will be now be offered Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme. Microsoft’s...

Partners have welcomed a recent announcement by Microsoft to overhaul its partner business, in a move it claims will make it easier for its channel to do business with the firm. The reorganisation will see Microsoft combine its Enterprise Product Group (EPG) with its SMS&P (Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners) group. The announcement was...

There are many wonderful things happening across the board for Surface, and I want to share a few of them with you. Our team gets so excited about meeting new Surface users and hearing their feedback, and we get to meet a lot more this holiday season! From Surface Pro, to Surface Book, to Surface...

At SCC, we provide IT solutions to some of the biggest organisations across both the public and private sectors. We provide the technology that enables people to do business. What we do needs to be underpinned by the best technology. Technology which supports and encourages innovation and boosts business efficiencies. We use the Microsoft Surface...

Technology industry giants Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have joined forces to form the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI) group, with the intent of sharing information on artificial intelligence and working to address key issues such as privacy and ethics. The group plans to use a standard open license to publish research with...