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This week in tech: 7-11 October 2019.

We barely have time to let the dust settle before another tech story hits the headlines. For busy professionals, the pace makes it easy for stories to get missed. We’ve got your back, so have rounded up some of the top tech stories from the past couple of weeks.

Windows 7 End of Life: All you need to know.

Those that follow this blog will be aware we wrote about Windows 7 End of Life back in January. At the time that may have seemed like a life time away. It isn't any more.

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OneDrive & SharePoint: The tools you need to grow your business.

Back in 2011, Microsoft introduced a subscription based platform for email called BPOS. Since then the platform has grown, and is widely used across the globe now known as Office 365. Following this, in late 2017, Microsoft released their latest solution – Microsoft 365 Enterprise. Bringing together the best-in-class productivity with simple device management and security measures, it helps organisations give the right tools to their employees to perform their roles efficiently.

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5 Ways To Make Your Workplace A More Enjoyable Place To Be

Did you know the average person spends 90,000 hours at work over their life time? Yet, research has shown 85% of employees are dissatisfied with their workplace.

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6 Reasons We LOVE Microsoft Teams and Why You Will Too...

Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based team collaboration platform with features that combine meetings, notes, files and various Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps in real-time. It comes as part of the Office 365 Suite at no additional cost and was designed to create a new experience that brings people, conversation and content together with the relevant tools teams needed to easily collaborate. Interested in finding out how Microsoft 365 could work for your business?

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5 easy ways to make your computer faster!

Take yourself back to the good old days when your new computer was starting up almost instantly and then think about now, do you find yourself at your computer screen asking yourself why is my computer so slow? It’s something many people ask themselves yet fail to do anything about. A slow computer is not only frustrating but time consuming and can damage efficiency in the workplace or at home.

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Why businesses are embracing Managed Services, and why YOU should too

Your IT department is inundated with problems and your network speed is getting increasingly difficult to deal with. Your business is growing and your IT department/provider is struggling to manage it. If any of these sound familiar then it might be time to think about a change, and that could be moving over to use a Managed Service. A survey from Clutch showed 59% of IT services have transitioned from the traditional break-fix model to a managed service contract.

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Windows 7 reaches end of life next year... what are your options? (Part 1 of 2)

As the old saying goes ‘all good things must come to an end’ and on January 14th 2020, Microsoft will officially be ending support of Windows 7. Given Windows 7’s popularity, particularly among business users, the end of support will be an inconvenience and require preparation.

All the important announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018

Microsoft held their big conference recently; here is what you need to know. Microsoft recently held their major conference, in which they laid out the company’s direction for the next 12 months and showed off some fancy new products and services that will make your working life easier.

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How to leverage Microsoft 365 without the headaches

Because your business is too important to leave your core processes to chance Since it was released in 2011, Microsoft’s Office 365 has grown to 60 million active users. Office 365 has proved a brilliant option for small businesses that are just looking for the great productivity tools they love that are kept up to date, but are not necessarily looking for anything too complex in their business IT.