Microsoft announces 16 years of support for Windows, SQL Servers

New ‘Premium Assurance’ plan extends support by six years, means Windows Server 2008 R2 will live until 2026. Current Redmond offers around 5 years of mainstream support to the above products. During this time updates are made for security reasons and new features are added. Afterwards comes 5 years of extended support, through this time […]

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Looking for a nearby place to eat or shop? Just tweet Google an emoji

Find local stops with just a single pictogram. Whether it be baked into Google Home or built surrounding the companies’ digital assistant, Google loves being able to overcrowd their web-searching function into pretty much platform they can. And the next destination is …… TWITTER. Not only does Google allow us web users to search for […]

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Microsoft won’t provide extended support for Office 2007 products beyond October 2017 deadline

Important information for anyone involved in their companies IT infrastructure:- Microsoft’s Office 2007/Exchange 2007 wave of client and server software is set to exit support in October 2017, and extended custom support agreements are going away. Microsoft Office 2007 products will be reaching their end of support dates next year 2017. In Microsoft’s world of […]

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Bletchley Park will train codebreaking teen hackers

Historic site will house the National College of Cyber Security Bletchley Park is going to be the home once again to the brightest young minds in codebreaking and will host the UK’s first dedicated training academy for cybersecurity students. The historical site is where Joan Clarke, Alan Turing and others broke the Germans’ Enigma code during […]

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