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Microsoft has treated developers to a sneak preview of it’s forthcoming release of Windows 8.

Speaking at the company’s ‘Build’ conference, Steven Sinofsky used the keynote presentation to walk attendees through a live demonstration of the new OS, and expand on some of the details about it, but stopped short of revealing when it plans to launch the next generation of it’s flagship operating system.

The new version borrows some features from the increasingly popular Windows Phone operating system, using tiles and ...

If you are an existing Microsoft BPOS customer, you should have now received an email from Microsoft informing you about the required migration to their new Office 365 service. Microsoft’s email was very generic and we wanted to make you aware of how these changes will affect your company over the coming year. The information below is very important and should be read carefully, however this information only applies to existing BPOS customers.

As you are aware Microsoft BPOS is a cloud ...

As you can see we have just updated our website. Our old site had served us well over the past couple of years, but we have made a number of significant changes to the site and our methods of communication.

Apart from the cosmetic changes, we have also gone social. Links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn can be found at the bottom of the page. Our Twitter feed will be updated regularly with up to the minute technology news, whilst our Facebook page ...

Over the past couple of years Dropbox, the online file storage and sharing company, has been growing in popularity. We have seen this service being used by many of our customers for simple access to files wherever a user has an internet connection, to share files too large to email, or simply for file backups. Recently there have been a number of security and legal issues surrounding the Dropbox service and we felt our customers needed to be fully informed.
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Martin Cuthbert and a group of 5 other individuals will be taking part in a sponsored bike ride from London to Southend on the 17th July 2011

Starting in Victoria Park, Team LightPath will cycle the 52 miles through the quiet lanes and villages of south Essex to Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea.

The team is taking part in the event in memory of Derek McKechnie who passed away suddenly last year.

If you would like to sponsor us, please visit the link below.

Donating ...

We have recently implemented a new ticketing system to allow us to keep our clients better informed and allow simpler methods of requesting support.

The new system is incredibly flexible and allows us to enter jobs, close and place jobs on hold, enable follow-ups and quickly search on previous jobs by company or user.

Going forward we plan to enable the email notifications of jobs, by mid-April. This will keep requestors up to date on the status of the job. You will ...

LightPath IT greatly values your business and in order for us to continue to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to our customer’s needs, it has become necessary to increase our hourly rate.

This increase will take effect from 1^st April 2011. If you have an existing contract, this price increase will not come into effect until your contract renewal date.

Despite initially planning to adjust our prices two years ago, and amid increased costs from our suppliers during an ...

On behalf of the LightPath IT team, we would like to wish everyone a very Happy and prosperous 2011.

LightPath IT will be increasing the VAT amount on our invoices after the announcement by the government to increase VAT to 20% on 04/01/2011.

All of our service pricing will stay the same, passing on any savings where applicable.

Because LightPath bill a month in arrears we will be required to charge 17.5% on our invoices issued in January 2011 for work carried out in December 2010.

These changes have been made to ensure you continue to receive the fastest response times for your IT issues. Our new help desk system will ensure that you will receive the speediest response to your query. Whether contacting us by phone, email or website your query will be logged into our tracking system, and the technician most suited to your issue and location will be allocated. You will then receive notifications via email and/or phone, of any updates and status ...