Microsoft Office 2010 upgrade free if you buy 2007 soon

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Customers looking to get their hands on Office 2010 when it comes out later on this year can do so, and for free.  If customers purchase Office 2007 between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010, Microsoft will allow you to download and upgrade to Office ...

Why Windows XP in 2010?

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Good day everybody. My name is Garry and I'm an Infrastructure Manager working for a Government body here in the UK. I manage a small team of infrastructure and support engineers and it's my job to ensure that our systems are reliable, resilient and efficient and ...

Microsoft offers 50% discount on Windows and Office upgrades

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

According to ZDNet, Microsoft really wants to push medium and small businesses to move away from Windows XP and older versions of Office. The "Up-to-Date Discount," as they call it, is available for the first year of the OVS (Open Value Subscription) licensing program and applies to customers using the ...

Microsoft: Clean installs from “upgrade media” is pirating

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Late last week, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft SMB community blog announcing that using any "hack" to install Windows 7 from upgrade media is not necessarily "legal" - and that users do not own the rights to perform such installs from upgrade media using this process. If you're an ...