All 35,000 desktops will also have access to Microsoft's Welsh Language Pack, which enables computer users to adapt their software to display many commonly used features in Welsh. The three-year Enterprise Agreement has been done with Software...
Another of the new packages for Microsoft is Windows Vista Enterprise, which is limited to customers that have a Software Assurance contract or an Enterprise Agreement licensing plan and adds several features which won't be in the standard...
The company also announced it is making Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1 available free to customers. As Microsoft announced in September, Windows Fundamentals is being made available as part of Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing programme.
Most will wait until Service Pack 1 for Vista has ironed out all the launch bugs and made the operating system more reliable. Graham Benson, IT director of the Web Factory, Play.com's IT organisation, said: "The new technologies deployed within the...
Next up on Microsoft's agenda is Service Pack 1 for Vista, which is expected before year's end. Many business customers pay for Microsoft's software under a licence agreement called Software Assurance.
A catalyst for some businesses could be the first service pack update of Vista, due early next year. Despite doubts about how quickly consumers and businesses are taking up the latest Windows OS, Microsoft remains upbeat about Vista adoption.