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Home Learning IT Courses

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Anyone interested in pursuing a career within the IT industry will find it possible to further their aims by taking a course of study from the comfort of their own home. Home based learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of gaining new skills as it can be fitted around other commitments. Courses range from the basics – learning how to operate a PC, through becoming proficient in office software, programming, to gaining in-depth knowledge to enable students to work in a technical support environment. Many courses lead to industry standard qualifications:


Softworld - the only software showcase

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Softworld is here again - but this time at ExCel, London  on the 19-20th October.


Softworld Select IT buyer survey

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Have your say in the Softworld Select IT buyer survey with the chance to win a magnum of Taittinger Brut Réserve Champagne.


Launch of Software News

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A software news service has been launched by SoftComparison.Com for all of the software packages covered in its online directory.

Software Package Authors will be able to upload their own breaking news at any time.  The service is free of charge but restricted to one submission per week with a maximum of 100 lines of text.


Software market contraction

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Over the last two years the UK business software market has changed considerably - 2 years ago there were nearly 2,000 software authors - today there are less than 600. Some business software authors sell their products directly but a large number sell their products through resellers. 2 years ago there were 3,500 resellers, today there are less than 1,000.


As the UK Government finalises its draconian plans to implement XBRL filing of Company Accounts in 2011 and the US SEC has imposed mandatory filing in XBRL on about 500 companies this year, Microsoft loses out on an obscure patent stopping it shipping Word with embedded XML.