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