"On that day, Microsoft is retiring both the Windows server 2012 and 2012/R2"

The move to remote working, using Teams for meetings and phone calls and softphones on the likes of 3CX and CNC CloudPhone have seen a meteoric rise in the need for a worthy headset.

"To date, it is estimated that Cl0p has extorted more than $500 million from various organisations within the US alone."

So much has changed in the modern office over the last 50 years. Typewriters and fax have given way to the computer and email. Social media and the internet have opened up channels of communications and commerce that could never be imagined in the mid-20th century. Yet, despite all these technological advances the office telephone remains. A last bastion of communication in a changing world and...

Did you know that elephants are one of the most protective animals on the planet towards their young? They only have one calf at a time typically, and carry them for almost two years. When born, the mother receives help in protecting the calf, from all the mothers within the herd.

As unintended consequences go, online collaboration got a really massive boost when the COVID 19 pandemic swept around the world as the virus looked to decimate the business landscape. Video calling that had once been the communication tool for all but a few, two video conferencing tools Zoom and Microsoft Teams saved the day and business too.

At the heart of every business is a conversation. Between your team, between suppliers, customers, local or global. A telephone call is good, we have been making those for a long time-since March 10th, 1876, to be precise. Interestingly, the first words spoken by Alexander Graham Bell in the worlds first telephone call, were: ‘‘Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you’’.

As in the classic convention of fairy tale storytelling, it typically starts off with a hero or heroine performing a task and then being rewarded. The best of them usually has an insurmountable event and then some magical assistance thrown in for good measure!

If Benjamin Franklin had been alive today, I am sure he would be impressed with what we have done with the place and been at the forefront of IT innovation, especially in the last 50 years. Remember how we used to use typewriters to generate a letter and to make multiple copies of it. You’d use carbon paper. Remember how the carbon powder used to come off on your hands, and you could only really...

A new widescreen screen arrives on your desk, along with a brand-new computer to power it. It has all the bells and whistles on it; Windows 10, Microsoft 365, virus and ransomware protection, all connected to a super-fast dedicated business leased internet line.