Microsoft Office 2013 & Office 365 Installations & Transferability
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced the new Office for consumers, including Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 University for college and university students, and traditional Office suites: Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013 and Office Professional 2013. Since then we’ve received questions about the number of installations people get with the traditional Office [...]
Microsoft Licence Price Changes Confirmed
With the launch of new Microsoft products starting from 1st December 2012, we had previously communicated changes to the licensing of client access licenses (See here). We can now confirm the following suite changes and consolidation along with various price rises. Below are the major changes that will occur from December 1st; these may be of [...]
Microsoft Client Access Licensing Changes
Effective 1st December 2012 Microsoft is making a change to the pricing of the “User” option when specifying Client Access Licences (CALs). Background Currently customers have the option of specifying either a “Device CAL” (intended for an individual device and providing server client access for an unlimited number of [...]
Latest News On Microsoft Price Increase
Microsoft has confirmed that the pending price hike on volume licensing will not be as steep as the initial preview indicated due to the weakening of the Euro currency in recent weeks. At the start of last month MS said it expected UK business customers would pay between 7.5% and 33.5% more for software licensing programmes [...]
Microsoft Increase UK Prices
What can organisations do to protect themselves from the price increase? Digital Exchange is advising that its customers contact their account managers to review their options. So call us without delay on 0800 073 1701. The increase will affect different organisations in different ways. There are many variables that determine the best course of [...]
Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on
Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 Premium Add-On gives small businesses a flexible and cost effective solution for deploying additional servers on a network running Windows SBS 2011 or SBS 2008. It provides a platform for running line-of-business (LOB) applications that are based on the Microsoft® SQL Server® operating system, role-based server deployments (such as additional domain [...]
Positive Change…
It’s been a busy few months here at Digital, and we’re pleased to say that our search for a Technical Manager has come to an end. So, congratulations to Steve Harper for his promotion from Field IT Engineer to the position of Technical Manager. We’d also like to congratulate Dave Parsons who’s been promoted from [...]
HP & Microsoft debut four new business appliances
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft tonight are taking the covers off four pieces of HP-made hardware that will ship with software, services, and support from both companies as part of their Frontline partnership. The goal, the companies say, is to reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy new appliances by bundling together pre-configured hardware and [...]
Digital Hits Gold!!
Digital Exchange is delighted to announce the attainment of Microsoft Gold Partner accreditation. As of October 2009 we progressed our accredited status with Microsoft from Certified Partner to Gold Partner, a status that has taken months of effort and commitment to obtain. Microsoft do not hand out Gold Partner status to all, and as a [...]
Digital Achieves Microsoft Certified Partner Status
After great efforts to enhance our internal technical skills and processes, which in-turn translates to higher levels of customer service and solution deployment, Microsoft has awarded Digital Certified Partner status. Jon Thornhill, Digital’s Business Development Director commented “This is a great step for Digital Exchange and proves the competence and ability we have to deploy [...]
