Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 6
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Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move
Security12 Dec 2025 | 2
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements
Off-Prem12 Dec 2025 | 5
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 6
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions
Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 18
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Public Sector08 Dec 2025 | 21
Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security
All those new features won’t fund themselves
SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 74
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist
With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up
SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 4
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals
Exclusive One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on
SaaS04 Dec 2025 | 28
Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services
Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk–only mailboxes lose EWS access
SaaS03 Dec 2025 | 7
UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server
Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help
Public Sector01 Dec 2025 | 27
Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring
HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing
SaaS26 Nov 2025 | 9
Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit
Exclusive Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues
SaaS26 Nov 2025 | 105
Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell
Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2025 | 43
Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead
Opinion The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.
SaaS24 Nov 2025 | 17
SAP's migration narrative suddenly looks messy as Kingfisher goes off-script
B&Q owner resists the S/4HANA push, betting it can innovate around legacy ERP, but questions remain
Databases19 Nov 2025 | 10
Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown
European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
AWS Re:invent18 Nov 2025 | 4
SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness
Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work
SaaS17 Nov 2025 |
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 15
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700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent
More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised
Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane
VIDEO ‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer
Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text
Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back
VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA
Exclusive Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets
Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day
No details, no CVE, update your browser now
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme
Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert
US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy
Meet 'ShipOS'
NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter
Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't
On Call Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up
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Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
'Don't just give me a price list or licensing module that spikes cost by 20x, show me the value,' says CTO
Databases12 Nov 2025 | 50
Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link
SaaS06 Nov 2025 | 45
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7
US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast
Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall
SaaS30 Oct 2025 | 3
Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe
Time to put eggs in more than one basket?
PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2025 | 66
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess
Public Sector29 Oct 2025 | 58
AI bubble to deflate as enterprises defer spending to 2027
ai-pocalypse Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 10
Cloudflare Q3 report shows the internet still breaks for the strangest reasons
From natural disasters to stray bullets and exams, it's been a shaky quarter for the world's connectivity
Networks28 Oct 2025 | 4
As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles
Interview Cloud giant says choice and flexibility matter more than standardization – for now
SaaS27 Oct 2025 | 1
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
Column AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 56
The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse
Opinion When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 27
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature
Updated ChatGPT can now rummage through corporate files via connectors, though Redmond still has the deeper hooks
SaaS24 Oct 2025 | 6
Windows Insiders get special anniversary desktop wallpaper
11 years of filing feedback and all we got was a bloody... not even a T-shirt?
SaaS24 Oct 2025 | 10
Microsoft suggests temporary registry hack for stricken smart card users
When is an issue not an issue? When it's intentional
SaaS23 Oct 2025 | 21
A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 115
Microsoft puts Office Online Server on the chopping block
The end is nigh, now get thee to 365
SaaS22 Oct 2025 | 37
Benioff backs off: Salesforce chief says sorry for Trump troop talk
Tech billionaire apologizes after endorsing plan to deploy National Guard in San Francisco
Offbeat20 Oct 2025 | 33
SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
Databases17 Oct 2025 | 23
Salesforce's Benioff warns of AI 'false prophets' while promising true profits by 2030
CRM messiah preaches data discipline while rivals chase LLM miracles
SaaS16 Oct 2025 | 5
Oracle goes all-in on AI, customers still figuring out how they'll use it
It's all agents and LLMs in Vegas, and even legacy users can partake
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 5
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'
SaaS15 Oct 2025 | 7
Shadow AI: Staffers are bringing AI tools they use at home to work, warns Microsoft
Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 30
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR
SaaS13 Oct 2025 | 25
Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America
Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption
PaaS + IaaS10 Oct 2025 | 19
Amazon's Quick Suite is like agentic AI training wheels for enterprises
Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations
AI + ML09 Oct 2025 | 1
Kubernetes kicks down Azure Front Door
This time outage was not actually Microsoft's fault
SaaS09 Oct 2025 | 19
Hundreds of millions of business PCs are still on Windows 10 as D-Day nears
canalys emea forum 2025 It's the end of support as we know it and users feel fine
SaaS09 Oct 2025 | 70
Take this rob and shove it! Salesforce issues stern retort to ransomware extort
CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags
Cyber-crime08 Oct 2025 | 7
No account? No Windows 11, Microsoft says as another loophole snaps shut
Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds
SaaS07 Oct 2025 | 154
SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research
Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts
SaaS02 Oct 2025 | 2
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account
AI + ML01 Oct 2025 | 76
Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages
This is one way to add a lot of AI users in a hurry, which Wall Street wants to see
SaaS01 Oct 2025 | 6
ServiceNow thinks you're doing AI fast and wrong
And of course thinks it can help you do it right, once it gets around to delivering
AI + ML30 Sep 2025 | 14
AI upstart aims to do what mere mortals can't: Make sense of Microsoft licensing
Interview Thankfully, Onyx's model also knows when to defer to a human for advice
AI + ML30 Sep 2025 | 13
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling
SaaS29 Sep 2025 | 76
Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble
Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet
PaaS + IaaS25 Sep 2025 | 17
SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused
Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey
SaaS25 Sep 2025 | 2
Node4's £45M Tisski takeover ends in tears – and £2.4M in damages
Messy ruling details a perfect storm of NAO, MoD, and Aquila contract failures
Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 3
SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals
And also force them to improve resilience
SaaS20 Sep 2025 | 5
Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week
Collaborationware CEO tried to smooth things over, but Hack Club now plans a strategy shift
SaaS19 Sep 2025 | 96
Workday U-turns on rehiring pledge as activist investors take $2B stake
Layoffs to stand following $1.1B AI acquisition
SaaS18 Sep 2025 | 7
UK Cabinet Office hands stalled Microsoft migration to another department
Updated Project to get off Google remains a red risk, according to government assessment
SaaS17 Sep 2025 | 18
Google unmasks itself as mystery hyperscaler behind yet another UK datacenter
Tech giant confirms facility next to the M25 is its latest AI-fueled server farm
On-Prem16 Sep 2025 | 66
EU regulators let Microsoft off the hook after Teams unbundling pledge
Slack's complaint sparked a five-year investigation, but Redmond walks away fine-free
SaaS12 Sep 2025 | 6
Outlook outage over North America, Microsoft scrambles to respond
On the plus side we'll all be getting fewer unwanted emails
SaaS11 Sep 2025 | 8
Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules
Updated Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked
PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2025 | 10
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban
ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath
Software08 Sep 2025 | 86
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 13
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly decides to do hardly anything to break it up
Ad giant won't be broken up, forced to offload Chrome or Android, thanks to AI
Legal03 Sep 2025 | 28
Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector
Register debate series As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking
Public Sector02 Sep 2025 | 86
From PAYE to P45: HMRC staff fired for prying into taxpayer data
Agency swears breaches are rare, just not rare enough to stop 186 being binned for sticky fingers
Public Sector18 Aug 2025 | 30
Microsoft kills volume rebates in name of 'transparency'
Online Services price changes start November 1, aligning with Microsoft.com rates and eliminating programmatic discounts
SaaS15 Aug 2025 | 17
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide
Register debate series As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say
Public Sector15 Aug 2025 | 128
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?
Register debate series Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience?
Public Sector14 Aug 2025 | 60
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs
Human usage set to double, AI agents might need them too
Virtualization14 Aug 2025 | 49
Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo
Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery
SaaS13 Aug 2025 | 47
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option
Register debate series For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be
Public Sector13 Aug 2025 | 82
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia
Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power
Legal13 Aug 2025 | 1
Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft
Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU
Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 61
I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way?
Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers
AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 17
Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users
UPDATED Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8
SaaS06 Aug 2025 | 48
Enterprise software giants weaponize AI to kill discounts and deepen lock-in
Oracle, SAP, Salesforce et al are tightening the screws, Forrester warns
AI + ML01 Aug 2025 | 11
Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published
PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2025 | 8
Microsoft pops legacy Exchange public folders on the chopping block
Support for migrations to be scrapped come October
Applications29 Jul 2025 | 5
UK buys time with £1.65B extension to G-Cloud framework
Replacement deal not ready, so old one gets 6 more months and budget bump
Public Sector29 Jul 2025 | 9
ServiceNow eyes $100M in AI-powered headcount savings
CFO claims money being reinvested in sales and engineering staff
SaaS25 Jul 2025 | 12
Replit makes vibe-y promise to stop its AI agents making vibe coding disasters
Announces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks
AI + ML22 Jul 2025 | 15
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably
SaaS18 Jul 2025 | 76
Outlook takes another sick day
updated Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed
Applications10 Jul 2025 | 48
Google Cloud lands gig to make 100,000 UK civil servants tech-literate
But Chocolate Factory love-in sorely lacks detail
Public Sector09 Jul 2025 | 19
Impact of Microsoft taking over Enterprise Account renewals starts to 'bite'
Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments
SaaS02 Jul 2025 | 17
Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal
The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build
SaaS27 Jun 2025 | 5
What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency
Comment Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond
Security26 Jun 2025 | 117
Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations
Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard
AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 61
OVHcloud chief talks up sovereignty discussions with the European Commission
... And then promptly deletes comment. Optimism or an opportunity? Or perhaps both
PaaS + IaaS20 Jun 2025 | 9
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%
Little agents everywhere
SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 21
A classic crash from Classic Outlook when opening or creating emails
Forms Library blamed for issues experienced by some users
SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 23
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push
Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users
Software17 Jun 2025 | 41
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong
Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
Software03 Jun 2025 | 12
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