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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

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Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding

Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship

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

AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security

Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions

Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI

Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B

Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year

Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP

S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change

Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes

Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will

Most of you still can't do better than 123456?

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump

Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials

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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 | 153

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

Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace

$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles

SaaS02 Jun 2025 | 7

CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack

Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns

Security23 May 2025 | 2

Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love

Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else

AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6

Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things

Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too

AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away

Applications16 May 2025 | 31

Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade

Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained

SaaS16 May 2025 | 7

Workday handed no-bid deal to fix staffing meltdown at Uncle Sam's uber-HR agency

Updated Do we smell DOGE? Yup

SaaS08 May 2025 | 17

Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money

SaaS06 May 2025 | 2

20% discount offer on Windows 365 expires around same time as Windows 10 support

Can't run Windows 11? Microsoft suggests renting it instead

SaaS02 May 2025 | 44

Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love

+Comment This couldn't possibly be about Chinese model builders taking some of the shine off US rivals, could it?

AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 10

After leaving citizens on hold for 798 years, UK tax authority has £1B for CRM upgrade

HMRC kicks off procurement to modernize customer service after scathing reports

Public Sector29 Apr 2025 | 23

When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot

Comment Former Microsoft engineer calls the Windows of today 'a tool that's a bit of an adversary'

SaaS23 Apr 2025 | 57

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

Networks17 Apr 2025 | 17

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?

SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 32

Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18

M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'

Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub

SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in

Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5

Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling

Double-oh-sh...

CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10

Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer

Software01 Apr 2025 | 121

UK finance watchdog spends millions 'enhancing' Workday software rolled out 4 years ago

FCA still splashing on customizing, integrating HR and finance system way after 2021 go-live

SaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8

Congress takes another swing at Uncle Sam's software licensing mess

SAMOSA digested by House last year, but choked on in Senate. Second time's a charm?

Public Sector28 Mar 2025 | 21

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