In this week's round-up of IT news affecting the UK, Warwick Ashford talks to Tony Collins about why the Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust decided to break away from the £12.7bn National Programme for IT in the NHS. Also: Karl Flinders finds that trading firms are demanding details of the technical problems that brought down certain systems at the London Stock Exchange on Monday.
Microsoft has announced the upcoming availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and the new Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 as a no-cost download.