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Microsoft revealed today at the Ignite conference in Chicago, USA, its plans to deliver a public beta of SharePoint Server 2016 in the last quarter of this year. The product is planned for general availability release in Q2 2016, but a release candidate version will…

A major win for Ballard Chalmers in Q1 was our assignment as a direct supplier to Transport for London (TfL), gained through our effective long-term provision of highly skilled software engineers for TfL development projects. In addition, we welcomed two new customers— recruitment agency Reliance…

Six months after launching contactless payments for travel in the capital, Transport for London (TfL) has been announced as the fastest growing contactless Visa merchant in Europe, and for Mastercard and American Express in the UK. Since September 2014, TfL says 60 million contactless journeys…

Ford is implementing Microsoft Azure to automatically update its cars’ infotainment systems via wifi. Until now, Ford’s infotainment system would be updated when the vehicle was brought into a dealership or with the use of a USB stick. With the Azure cloud system, vehicle navigation,…

Microsoft Ignite is set to take place in Chicago, USA between May 4th and 8th 2015 and it is here that SharePoint Server 2016 will be publicly debuted. In this blog post the SharePoint team says, “At Ignite, we’ll publicly demo SharePoint Server 2016 for…

2014 did a lot to raise public awareness of cloud technologies, but not always for the right reasons. In an article published in today’s The Telegraph Jason Zander, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, discusses security in the cloud. Read the article here.

The Microsoft Research team has unveiled its new high-performance query-processing engine for big data analytics. Aptly named Trill, in reference to “a trillion events per day”, the engine rapidly gets results from queries on large quantities of data. According to a post on Microsoft’s technet.com…