As many readers will know, Microsoft announced at the beginning of May that it was increasing the cost of its software licensing for the business market by 29 per cent with effect from 1 July this year. Microsoft’s stated reason for the price rise was to bring the UK licensing costs in line with its…
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Editor's Notes
Editor’s notes: Bring your own device
The widespread consumer adoption of smartphones and tablet devices means that there are growing demands from employees to be able to use their own devices for corporate activities. At the most basic level, this might just mean access to corporate email but it can and should extend upwards into corporate data access and line-of-business applications….
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Orchard’s apprentices
We applaud the decision by Orchard Information Systems to start an apprenticeship scheme (see page 4) for local school leavers who don’t want to go to university (or perhaps can’t afford it, given the cost of fees these days). The year-long apprenticeships are mutually beneficial, with the apprentices having the opportunity to ‘earn while they…
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Editor’s notes: Housing without frontiers
We are predicting that the growth in mobile working for both in-house and field-based workers, the increase in unified communications and cloud services, and the widespread availability of tablets and smartphone devices will form the ‘perfect storm’ necessary to cause a revolution in the way housing providers run their operations and the agility with which…
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Editor’s Notes: Now we are four – Future trends
This issue marks the end of our fourth year of publishing Housing Technology, and despite the wider economy, technology developments in the social housing sector have never looked rosier. Not only is housing higher on the agenda at the most senior levels of government, our view is that the sector’s adoption and use of IT…
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Editor’s Notes: Encouraging direct engagement
We recently had the opportunity to see a novel way for housing providers and IT suppliers to work together to improve tenant services and their immediate environment. George Grant, publisher of Housing Technology, was invited by Family Mosaic to one of its properties in south London that was getting a ‘face lift’ courtesy of 80…
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