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• Zoos enhance efficiency, patron experience with Skype

  Zoos South Australia has enhanced operational efficiency, animal care and customer experience with new video-based collaboration tools.
  

• Microsoft donates $4m of software to World Vision Australia

  World Vision Australia has been given $4 million worth of Microsoft software including Office Professional Plus 2013, SharePoint, Lync and Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) Online.

• Sydney Water ramps up mobility

  Sydney Water is boosting its mobility credentials with the rollout of Apple iPads and Windows 8 smartphones across most of its workforce.

• Cloud shift boosts CIO’s role

  GPT Group’s move to dump its on-premise hardware and shift it all to the cloud hasn’t threatened CIO Greg Baster’s job — it’s enhanced it.

• MTC Australia phases out desktop phones and PCs as part of cloud first strategy

  Not-for-profit employment/training provider MTC Australia has ditched 500 desktop phones in favour of voice over IP (VoIP) and is now phasing out its aging PC fleet.

• 7 Things You May Not Know About Microsoft Office

  This isn't your parent's Microsoft Office. Recent activity culminating with the SharePoint Conference 2014 shows that Microsoft is making its Office suite more social, more integrated with both home-grown and acquired Microsoft technologies, more analytical and more cloud-friendly.

• Brisbane Grammar School prepares for Lync

  Students at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland will be able to connect with classrooms in Australia and overseas in about six weeks’ time when the School rolls out Microsoft’s unified communications suite Lync.

• Webjet announces flight to Office 365 and Azure

  Microsoft will lift Webjet into the cloud with Office 365 and Azure, Microsoft announced today. Webjet said it made the move as it prepares to expand its business in Australia and New Zealand.

• Will Skype be another Microsoft license gotcha?

  After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.

• Why we chose Exchange Online, not Google Apps

  The City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has never owned an Exchange server, but starting on Memorial Day it will roll out Exchange and Outlook e-mail for 2,700 of its workers.