The Blackmores Group natural health products company is now reaping the rewards of an enterprise transformation of its business through its deal with Microsoft which sees the company deploying Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics 365 across its multiple consumer brands and expanding geographies.

Nine days ago, the Victorian Government announced that it would be providing $200,000 for a program to help Microsoft train more people in the use of its software. It came, ironically, just a day after regional Victorian hospitals were hit by ransomware – something that, by far, only attacks Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Microsoft appears to have given up on Windows as a mobile operating system, announcing at a launch in New York on Wednesday that in 2020 it would release a dual-screen phone which runs Android.