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CNC Newsletter Issue 8 Christmas 2021

Welcome to our Christmas 2021 newsletter.

Christmas and New Year just got a whole lot better.

New 2022 CNC Mouse Mat

‘’It just wouldn’t be Christmas if we didn’t get our CNC Mousemat’’

We will shortly be sending an email to all of you, with details of how you can request the 2022 – Our 25th-anniversary edition of the CNC mouse mat. If you are not currently a CNC customer and you would like the much sought after, now infamous CNC Mousemat, then please, do not hesitate to get in touch by email at sales@cnc-ltd.co.uk to request your mat.

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Christmas Jumper Day!

CNC Christmas Jumper Day is now in its fourth year. This picture only shares a tiny bit of the pride the team have in wearing their jumpers. It is really quite something to watch someone on the helpdesk sorting out an IT problem, or a director sporting a flashing reindeer nose Christmas jumper on a Microsoft Teams call. And 2021 was even better with another great selection of styles and colours. This year we managed to raise £100.00 for St Barnabas House Hospice with our annual support for Christmas Jumper Day.

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St Barnabas is an independent charitable hospice located in Worthing West Sussex, that provides the very best in free, high-quality end of life care services and support to patients, their families and carers, both at the hospice and in the local community, to adults with advanced progressive life-limiting conditions. As a charity, they very much rely on personal generosity. So, if you would like to get involved by making a donation, by fundraising, or by volunteering please do. Please click this link to find out more about St Barnabas House.

LATEST BLOG POSTS

EVERYBODY BE COOL, THIS IS A ROBBERY… (OR HOW NOT TO CLICK ON A PHISHING EMAIL)…

What a great film Pulp Fiction is, and that opening scene! Two thieves casually sipping coffee and discussing the good and the bad merits of robbing banks and liquor stores. As the Hawaiian shirt-clad villain says to the other, ‘‘There‘s no sense in robbing a bank. There’s no money in it’’. The method of robbing a bank has changed. How visionary he was. Click here for more

WHAT HAS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST GOT TO DO WITH OUTSOURCED IT?

Back in 2002, the Greek entry by Michalis Rakintzis ‘SAGAPO’ for the Eurovision song contest came 17th. I’m sure Michalis won’t mind me sharing with you just how pertinent his lyrics are. Click here for more

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CNC Celebrating 25 years 1996 - 2021

2021 has been a truly fabulous year for CNC. As a company, we are now officially 25 years old. And what a spectacular 25 years it has been. We have seen some incredible changes over the years in our business world of computer use and the problems therein, from floppy disks to thumb drives, disk storage, to the magic of the cloud.

The internet back in 1996, had around 30 million users in the world and ran at 56k on a modem. Today, 4.66 billion (65% of the world's population) have access to the internet and speeds up to 1,000 Mbps are now the new norm. To put that into perspective - some of the files that you download today would have taken a week in 1996.

Computer viruses might have started in the ’70s, but they were pretty fiendish by the ’90s, and now we have to contend with brute force DDoS attacks! Computer screens that took up half your desk, to the super-thin widescreens of today. Snake and Minesweeper was all the rage then, now we have super immersive virtual reality.

Back in 1996, Microsoft Word used to have a helpful little paper clip character to answer all your Microsoft Word related questions, or you could Ask Jeeves. Yes, it's been a crazy technological ride, and quite what the future holds, who knows what the next big thing will be?

But whatever the IT demands of doing business will be; not only are we looking forward to the next 25 years and what they might hold, but we are looking forward to sharing them with you, keeping your company and team secure, supported and future-proofed. YOU, your business, your team have brought to us some pretty amazing projects over the years, it has been absolutely fantastic to work alongside you and help you get the very best out of your IT.

This may be the final newsletter of 2021, but please keep sending in your questions so that we can put them in our newsletter and answer them. We hope that you have picked up some useful and helpful information along the way.

From all of us at CNC we would very much like to take this opportunity to share a big thank you for allowing us to look after your IT. Looking forward to seeing you in 2022.

We wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year.

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