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(Photo via Microsoft) Microsoft and the Met Office, the UK's national weather service, are teaming up to develop a weather and climate supercomputer, which will be the world's most advanced machine dedicated to meteorology. The goal is to better prepare the UK public for severe weather and a changing climate. In February 2020, the UK government committed £1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) of funding to develop this state-of-the-art supercomputer, which is expected to be up and running by the summer of 2022. Once operational, it will work in a myriad of ways: Improve projections for risk-based plann...

NHS migrates mailboxes to Microsoft Azure for cloud-first healthcare Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has migrated over two million NHSmail mailboxes to the Microsoft Azure cloud in what Microsoft calls a “step towards the Government’s vision for a cloud-first health service”. The NHA, which is the UK’s largest employer, has also deployed the latest version of Microsoft 365, giving staff access to the suite’s productivity capabilities.  NHSmail is the NHS’s secure email service for sharing patient identifiable and sensitive information. Microsoft ...

UK must invest in digital skills, say Microsoft and CBI Microsoft The UK must invest in digital skills to improve business outcomes and create inclusive workplaces that support employees’ mental well-being, according to the new CBI/Microsoft Tech Tracker 2020. The report celebrates companies’ efforts to accelerate technology adoption. It found that, this year, many organisations have quickly implemented video conferencing and cloud computing solutions to deal with the challenges create by Covid-19 and improve agility and productivity.  Despite this, 56 per cent of respondents said that t...