Case study: Windows 8 answers BT's efficiency call

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BT's Peter Scott gives Danny Palmer the inside story behind the company's decision to equip 6,000 Openreach engineers with Windows 8 mobile computers

BT is one of the world’s biggest telecommunications firms, providing broadband, phone, television and IT services to millions of homes and businesses. The firm’s thousands of Openreach engineers ar...

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