UK.gov bulks up for Microsoft savings
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1.5 million public sector users The government is to make further cash savings thanks to higher discounts offered by Microsoftâ¦
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Britain's budget deficit ballooned last month, when the public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR) rose to 10.8 billion pounds (15.5 billion euros, 19.5 billion dollars), the biggest September shortfall on record, official figures showed.
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Online advertising spending in Britain  surged 40.3 percent to 917.2 million pounds ($1.72 billion) in  the first half of 2006 compared to last year, giving it a  market share of 10.5 percent, new data showed on Wednesday.
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Business & money: Shares in the internet company rise further after it says Â£21bn unsolicited offer is too low
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Latest figures from Principality Building Society show that net savings have increased by almost 50% since the base rate rise in August.
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The government aims for more spending, but in the past many saved their checks.
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Microsoft Corp. is expanding its local, photo-based search service into the United Kingdom, and adding traffic information for the U.S. service.
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Microsoft continues to make acquisitions to boost its online services and advertising strategy. Early Wednesday, the company said it snapped up Multimap, a U.K. company that provides online mapping for Europe, North America, and Australia.The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal. Multimap, based in London, will act as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, and employees will be integrated into the company&#39;s Virtual Earth and Search teams in its Online Services Group (OSG), Microsoft said.Multimap has staff in the United Kingdom, the&#160;United States, and Australia, and Microsoft said it is not sure yet if those employees will stay where they are or move to other offices. The Multimap office in the United Kingdom will remain open and employees will continue business as usual there, the company added.In addition to providing online maps, Multimap also offers location-based services to find local businesses, hotels, and restaurants, as well as business services to provide mapping, proximity searching, routing, aerial images with map overlay, and local information to business Web sites.Microsoft has been looking for ways to boost the value and, thus revenue, of OSG, which oversees MSN and Windows Live. Microsoft hopes to leverage these properties to sell online advertising and generate revenue in this area to compete with Google.Last week, the company said it&#160;purchased Seattle startup WebFives, formerly Vizrea, which provides a Web-based file-sharing service for Internet and mobile video, photos, audio, and blogs. Microsoft also made its largest acquisition to date to boost the revenue of OSG with its&#160;purchase of aQuantive digital advertising and marketing services firm for $6 billion&#160;earlier this year.In addition to making acquisitions, Microsoft also has been partnering with online content and service providers to offer online advertising. On Monday, the company announced a deal to be the&#160;exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising for CNBC.com, a deal similar to ones it already has&#160;in place with Facebook globally&#160;and&#160;Digg in the United States.All of these efforts are part of a now two-year push to add services and content for its online brands to boost the revenue of its Online Services Business segment. To date, Wall Street analysts have said they are unimpressed by the growth of this segment, and Microsoft&#39;s moves seem to be evidence the company is getting that message loud and clear.Revenue from online services grew only 8.7 percent from $2.3 million to $2.5 million for Microsoft&#39;s fiscal year 2007, ended June 30. For the company&#39;s first-quarter 2008, during which the aQuantive deal closed, revenue from OSG was better, up 25 percent year over year. But even Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell acknowledged when first-quarter earnings were revealed that Microsoft would like to see more growth from this business segment.
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Microsoft finally made good on a five months&#39;-old promise Thursday by upping the storage allowance for new members of its Hotmail e-mail service.
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FROM today, Microsoft is expanding a programme to give government organisations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints for the latest version of its Office software.
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Annual savings of Â£600m in public services can be made in Wales by 2010,  says Rhodri Morgan.
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Been scammed? Claim your Â£100,000 here We're obliged to the reader who alerted us to the agreeable news that Microsoft will compensate deserving 419 victims to the tune of Â£100,000 a head.â¦
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The NHS has struck a money-saving deal with computer giant Microsoft amid reports of spiralling costs to its national information technology programme, it was announced today.
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If large businesses use tools such as Microsoft's Solution Accelerator Business Desktop Deployment package (assuming it's easier to use than it is to say), the administrative "best practices" those tools will help them adopt could save them somewhat more per PC than what they spent for the license, according to a Gartner study advanced by a Microsoft product manager who spoke with BetaNews.
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Savers deposited more than Â£16bn with building societies during 2007, the highest level to date, industry figures show.
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The U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce is negotiating a renewal of a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. that will focus on services and support.
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A routine software upgrade of Microsoft-based desktop computers led to the crash of around 40,000 machines at the UK government's Department for Work and Pensions last week.