Microsoft and OEMs cut prices of CoPilot+ PCs in Europe during Q4, analyst stats confirm
Double digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest'
AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 3
Channel
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners
Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that
Channel09 Jan 2025 | 8
The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now
Opinion 'For 30 years you thought you were business geniuses,' veteran analyst tells resellers and distributors
Channel08 Jan 2025 | 56
Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware
Exclusive Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel
Virtualization16 Dec 2024 | 18
Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs
Canalys Forums EMEA IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook
AI + ML29 Nov 2024 | 53
Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry
Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk
Channel21 Nov 2024 | 12
SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week
Exclusive CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO
Channel21 Oct 2024 | 22
US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia
Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech
Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 4
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do
Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases
Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151
Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield
Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage
AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 25
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all
As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2024 | 142
Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index
50% dive in market cap during 2024 forcing CEO Pat Gelsinger to revisit strategy
Channel03 Sep 2024 | 22
IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim
'They actually replaced me with a younger employee'
Channel04 Aug 2024 | 34
South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant
Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors
Software30 Jul 2024 | 9
Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance
Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects
AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 4
ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together
The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech
Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |
Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart
Invests $350 million in Flipkart
Channel27 May 2024 | 5
VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers
As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS
Virtualization01 May 2024 | 16
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud
But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems
Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition
Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI
Software08 Apr 2024 | 1
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Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025
Opinion Think you're good at spotting trends? Try these on for size
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer
‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack
'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days
'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys
They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
Knee-deep in the markup
Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used
Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions
It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist
Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
STORIES
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?
Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO
Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing
Channel18 Mar 2024 | 12
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses
Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief'
Channel15 Mar 2024 | 31
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content
Channel11 Mar 2024 | 8
Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals
London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns
Channel22 Feb 2024 | 10
eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered
9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemic
Channel24 Jan 2024 | 20
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services
Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill
Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group
Updated Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors
Channel19 Jan 2024 |
As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix
A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction
Channel18 Jan 2024 | 26
India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI
Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed
Channel18 Jan 2024 |
Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering
Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, too
Channel28 Dec 2023 | 9
Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago
Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening
Channel27 Dec 2023 | 26
China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com
5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile
Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6
Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment
India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes
Channel20 Oct 2023 | 11
Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst
One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech
Channel12 Oct 2023 | 17
Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'
Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now
Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU
Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy
Channel06 Sep 2023 | 17
Two top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped
CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightens
Channel06 Jul 2023 | 3
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan
All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout'
Channel16 Jun 2023 | 70
Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late
Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster
Channel23 May 2023 |
India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines
Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000
Channel05 May 2023 | 15
Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies
Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah?
Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13
Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money
Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off
Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings
Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings
Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3
Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks
Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?
Channel14 Oct 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'
It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts
Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1
Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all
Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing
Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4
Salesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for the inevitable fix
Who,Me? ‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake
Channel05 Sep 2022 | 56
India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs
Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems
Channel25 Jul 2022 | 24
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger
Channel29 Jun 2022 | 8
Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW
Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines
Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2
Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain
Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring
Channel10 Jun 2022 | 37
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns
Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment
Channel06 May 2022 | 13
Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine
Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state
Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m
Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO
Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies
Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals
Channel25 Jan 2022 | 11
Renewal chasing as-a-service is now a thing – and vendors love it
Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people
Channel28 Oct 2021 | 21
Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January
Canalys Forum 2021 Things not likely to improve until 2023
Channel15 Oct 2021 | 3
Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds
Canalys Forums Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?
Channel08 Oct 2021 | 40
Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi
High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants
Channel06 Oct 2021 | 17
Japan's NTT Group to allow remote work for all 320,000 staff
Ditching central offices in favour of over 250 regional facilities for a workforce twice the size of Microsoft's
Channel29 Sep 2021 | 3
BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers
Channel06 Sep 2021 | 4
Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups
Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy band
Channel03 Sep 2021 | 17
Telefónica's cloud limb slurps Cancom's UK&I biz to cash in on Brit enterprise tech market
There's a tasty NHS contract in there
Channel30 Jul 2021 |
Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages
But mobile biz continues to wane
Channel30 Jun 2021 | 4
The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m
It's the longest day of the year
Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5
UK.gov finally proposes to police rogue umbrella companies but leaves questions unanswered
Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practices
Channel10 Jun 2021 | 5
Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave? Not quite
From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers'
Channel09 Jun 2021 | 1
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic
Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
It's the UK contractor tax factor: IR35 outsiders gaining leverage in skills market, survey finds
New tax rules see a hike in use of umbrella companies - another can of worms
Channel02 Jun 2021 | 18
33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered affecting 400 staff
Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business
Channel28 Apr 2021 | 6
UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly
Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt
Channel19 Apr 2021 | 16
Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tablets
Channel30 Oct 2020 | 17
Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods
Canalys Forum 2020 Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'
Channel09 Oct 2020 | 82
Brit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to spend the annual £900m IT budget
Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closed
Channel30 Sep 2020 | 3
Remember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason Tsai's assets
High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing orders
Channel24 Sep 2020 | 11
Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture
Updated Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051
Channel18 Sep 2020 | 4
Ex-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four directors have been sentenced to prison in the UK
18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of court
Channel09 Jun 2020 | 47
Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts
Wide-ranging powers come into force in June
Channel18 May 2020 | 26
Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework
What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain
Channel18 May 2020 | 17
Post-pandemic hard-sell under way: Resellers leaned on to convert free trial users into fully paid-up customers
Eight weeks to turn ‘helping you enable remote work with Office 365 at this difficult time’ into cash
Channel12 May 2020 | 6
Brit IT infrastructure giant Computacenter hits pause on shareholder dividends after furloughing 10% of staff
Engineers, consultants can't visit client sites so home they go
Channel23 Apr 2020 | 4
'Anything' related to remote working is a winner for Euro disties, but classic enterprise hardware? That's another story
Official stats reach Vulture Towers
Channel07 Apr 2020 | 19
Tech services biz Allvotec furloughing staff, asking remainder – including top brass – to take pay cut
CEO talks of measures to combat expected sales slide due to pandemic
Channel03 Apr 2020 | 5
Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration
Updated AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer
Channel01 Apr 2020 | 6
Softcat MD stepping down at reseller months after flogging £1.5m worth of stock
Slips out door with 620,000 shares to enjoy a life less ordinary
Channel25 Mar 2020 |
Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves
Eventually, 'customers will stop buying and start preserving capital'
Channel20 Mar 2020 | 118
UK Carphone Warehouse shops set to sling their last phones, 2.9k redundancies hit high street, as Dixons closes all 531 'standalone' sites
CW to live on as a counter in a Curry's, as CEO says: Mobile is 'currently holding back the whole business'
Channel17 Mar 2020 | 22
Resellers facing 'months' of delays for orders to be fulfilled. IT gathers dust on docks as coronavirus-stricken China goes back to work
SSDs, laptops, servers all hit in the struggle for stock
Channel12 Mar 2020 | 52
'Up to 300' UK heads to roll at Brit IT services firm Allvotec, with 200 jobs offshored to Bulgaria in cost-cutting drive
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do...
Channel11 Mar 2020 | 21
UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
Calm down now
Channel03 Mar 2020 | 59
Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute
Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge
Channel27 Feb 2020 | 17
AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen
Mmmm, these scraps are pretty darn meaty
Channel21 Feb 2020 | 57
Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?
Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative
Channel19 Dec 2019 | 52
Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at
Will no one think of the SMEs? Oh, actually some have made the grade
Channel13 Dec 2019 |
David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74
Obit Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'
Channel09 Dec 2019 | 1
Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK
May we suggest a rebrand?
Channel06 Dec 2019 | 10
Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle
Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm
Channel20 Nov 2019 | 6
One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers
I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex
Channel24 Oct 2019 | 47
Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed
Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k
Channel23 Oct 2019 | 20
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