Cut-price Microsoft 365 seats mark Small Business Saturday – but only US firms need apply
Any opportunity to nudge customers cloudwards, but no word on whether generosity will extend to Europeans
24 Nov 2020 | 4
Employed as an intern at Vulture Central in 2018, Richard Speed stuck around and managed to achieve the lofty title of Reporter after demonstrating his prowess at carrying beer glasses. He studied English Literature and Computer Science at university before spending a quarter of a century at the sharp, pointy end of IT. Now he much prefers writing about it rather than having to make it work. Richard covers Microsoft and open source software. He is also responsible for the Bork!Bork!Bork! feature, and the On Call and Who, Me? columns.
Currys PC World website crumples into unscheduled maintenance as shoppers chase latest gaming machines
Hopefully no dogfood was eaten ahead of this incident
24 Nov 2020 | 7
Marketers for an Open Web ask UK competition watchdog to block launch of Google's anti-tracking Privacy Sandbox
Group claims adtech 'has nothing to do with privacy' but is rather an attempt 'to take control of the web'
24 Nov 2020 | 25
China prepares for launch of Chang'e 5 mission to Moon, which would make it third nation to return lunar sample
If all goes as planned
23 Nov 2020 | 14
Windows Insiders give thanks for latest release... Hang on. Where's the 64-bit Intel on Arm stuffing?
In BriefAlso: Edge to take to the M1, and TypeScript 4.1 is here
23 Nov 2020 |
It's always DNS, especially when a sysadmin makes a hash of their semicolons
Who, Me?Remember the days when 'we made it up as we went along'?
23 Nov 2020 | 138
Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about
Red trousers and a Porsche or respectable middle age for Windows?
21 Nov 2020 | 107
Teams seeks 24-hour party people for consumer chat
Skype? We've heard of it
20 Nov 2020 | 14
We see what you did there: First-stage booster from Rocket Lab's Return to Sender mission floats back to Earth
Electron celebrates a parachute party and is successfully recovered
20 Nov 2020 | 23
Software running on demo licence? At least one patty pusher is Lovin' It
Bork!Bork!Bork!The last time we saw one of these was in February. Things haven't gone well since then
20 Nov 2020 | 12
When even a power-cycle fandango cannot save your Windows desktop
On CallIn steps our hero: Have you tried turning it off and on again?
20 Nov 2020 | 191
CodeWeavers' CrossOver ran 32-bit Windows Intel binary on macOS on Arm CPU emulating x86 – and nobody died
Trying to get that one weird app working on new Mac silicon?
19 Nov 2020 | 74
Windows 10 installation shows shopping centre its sad face – the natural response to finding out you're in Peterborough
Bork!Bork!Bork!Watch as we effortlessly segue from BSODs to hovertrains
17 Nov 2020 | 21
Panic in the mailroom: The perils of an operating system too smart for its own good
Who, Me?That other 1973 hit: The Dark Side of the Mainframe
16 Nov 2020 | 125
UK-led telescope to gaze at exoplanets, plus Jupiter 's 'glow-in-the-dark' moon
In BriefAlso: Space photos from an analogue age up for sale, more Cygnus
13 Nov 2020 | 5
Shock news: NASA lunar ambitions might be a bit too... ambitious
'We believe the Agency will be hard-pressed to land astronauts on the Moon by the end of 2024'
13 Nov 2020 | 34
Solving a big, yellow IT problem: If it's not wearing hi-vis, I don't trust it
On CallThrow in a clipboard and you look like you're the business
13 Nov 2020 | 88
Microsoft unveils a Universal version of Office for Apple silicon
Seeking something perpetual for Windows on Arm? You can make do with a 32-bit Intel emulation
12 Nov 2020 | 39
Here's a little Intel: Beware of Linux graphics vendors bearing gifts of shared code – open-sourcer
Mesa contributor issues a warning: community matters
12 Nov 2020 | 11
Need a hobby for lockdown? Perhaps check out the CMOS battery
Bork!Bork!Bork!There are no tags today, but there will always be bork
12 Nov 2020 | 11
Cool, cool, cool: Screwdriver-wielders delve into the guts of an Xbox Series X
'Like an air conditioner with a graphics card'.... Lessons in heat management from Microsoft
11 Nov 2020 | 11
Hmmmm, you know what Azure PowerShell is lacking? Some Predictive Intellisense
Az Predictor aims to spare little grey cells the effort of tracking thousands of cmdlets
11 Nov 2020 | 9
Back of the .NET: Microsoft chooses Xbox day to unveil a slew of dev-luring products
.NET 5, new Visual Studio, F# updates and more
11 Nov 2020 | 1
123 Bork? Six-day DNS record-edit outage at domain name flinger 123 Reg enrages users
It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It's actually a TITSUP*
11 Nov 2020 | 37
