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'Direct from the software vendor': UK.gov goes window-shopping for standard ERP in £400m spree
Don't bother picking that tie for the Zoom session, resellers
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Apps get bit animated: Android Studio 4.0 released with new Motion Editor
Google's free IDE is high quality but doesn't remove all the annoyances of Android development
05 Jun 10:10 | 10
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Video? That's so not what we care about, says Slack, as it signs video deal with AWS
All Amazon staff are slackers now as AWS chat backend Chime's in
05 Jun 07:28 | 5
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Google+ replacement ‘Currents’ to end beta and debut in G Suite on July 6th
Admins told ‘It will not be possible to opt out’ but also promised transition should be painless
05 Jun 04:57 | 35
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Google India says Play store policy, not geopolitics, behind removal of Chinese-app-deleting app
And we’d do it anywhere else, anytime, says veep
05 Jun 01:06 | 3
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Is a global crisis the right time to invest in some kind of data platform? If the boss isn't making cuts to all things IT, why not?
Forget Industry 4.0 – we're on Data 4.0 now, if Informatica is to believed
04 Jun 09:15 | 2
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No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically
Something something pushing us over the Edge
04 Jun 05:08 | 65
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Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel – systemd
Minimalist distro aims to be the go-to for systemd-free Linux installations
03 Jun 12:46 | 69
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Indian app that deleted Chinese apps from Androids deleted from Play Store
Consumer boycott clicktivism at a time of border tensions? There was, briefly, a million-download app for that
03 Jun 08:28 | 35
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Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'
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02 Jun 20:01 | 97
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Android 11 Beta 1 leaks on to handful of handsets days after official release postponed
Weird icon shapes, functionality tweaks, and notifications shaken up
02 Jun 15:45 | 7
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Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Compatibility hold slapped on affected kit with fixes in 'upcoming release'
02 Jun 11:09 | 32
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AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager
Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGet
01 Jun 14:13 | 11
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After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one
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01 Jun 11:20 | 8
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Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler
Who, Me?Beware the forgotten bit of test text lurking in the application
01 Jun 07:15 | 77
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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds
As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT
01 Jun 06:28 | 158
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High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new
29 May 15:45 | 2
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Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020
Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included
29 May 12:45 | 15
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This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year
Spawn of ALGOL turns middle-aged
29 May 11:20 | 112
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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa
29 May 09:23 | 104
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Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR
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Linux-loving Windows 10 May 2020 Update squeaks in with days to spare before June
Scampering through spring fields, or a cautious dribble seeping under the bathroom door?
28 May 19:15 | 15
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Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app
Hilarious
28 May 14:20 | 101
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Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager
Updated'We appreciated your input and insights'
28 May 13:43 | 59
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28 May 11:40 | 32
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IBM Sametime could rise again as HCL makes shortlist for India's home-grown Zoom clone
A dozen daring firms will duke it out for the right to get India talking and take on the world!
28 May 09:40 | 6
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Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source digital audio workstation
Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading
28 May 08:59 | 34
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FYI: There are thousands of Chrome extensions with so, so many fake installations to trick you into using them
Unethical developers drum up bogus user counts to gain trust
28 May 06:56 | 14
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Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out
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27 May 21:04 | 38
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Google brews up a fresh pot of Java for its serverless Cloud Functions service
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27 May 15:55 | 3
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Surf's up: Microsoft emits new security baseline for Edge 83 with way to shut off access to built-in browser game
How may I secure thee, let me count the ways...
27 May 13:43 | 3
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cmd.exe is dead, long live PowerShell: Microsoft leads aged command-line interpreter out into 'maintenance mode'
'It should not be used for interactive shell work' – Windows Terminal chief
27 May 11:51 | 81
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'I wrote Task Manager': Ex-Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans
'There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill' – sadly no longer the case
26 May 17:29 | 106
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Man responsible for least popular iteration of Windows UI uses iPad Pro as a desktop*
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26 May 11:47 | 49
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Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken far too long
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26 May 09:00 | 56
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22 May 17:09 | 64
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The longest card game in the world: Microsoft Solitaire is 30
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22 May 12:10 | 54
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Mind your language: Microsoft set to swing the axe on 27 languages in iOS Outlook
Moenie die hoender ruk nie
22 May 08:15 | 76
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Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes
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22 May 07:26 | 156
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India makes contact-tracing app mandatory for passengers as domestic flights resume
By the time you get the status check the app needs, and get through the new check-in process, you'll wish you stayed home
22 May 06:28 | 11
