UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK
Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal
Applications14 Nov 2025 | 44
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Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight
On Call Org chart games were more important than speed and accuracy
Applications14 Nov 2025 | 107
Avalonia brings Linux, browser support to Microsoft's MAUI cross-platform app solution
Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly
Applications13 Nov 2025 | 11
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows
Dave Plummer's 85 KB troubleshooting tool shipped with his home number on the code
Applications12 Nov 2025 | 47
OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list
Risk list highlights misconfigs, supply chain failures, and singles out prompt injection in AI apps
Applications11 Nov 2025 | 4
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen
Applications06 Nov 2025 | 9
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack
Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners
Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 6
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer
hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store
Applications05 Nov 2025 | 9
International Criminal Court kicks Microsoft Office to the curb
Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit
Applications31 Oct 2025 | 62
9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software
Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise
Security29 Oct 2025 | 32
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
Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to
Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview
Applications28 Oct 2025 | 20
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
Apple faces £1.5B payout after losing UK App Store case
iPhone maker overcharged devs and users, says competition court
Applications24 Oct 2025 | 38
Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything
iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets
Applications23 Oct 2025 | 17
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 threatens to ram Copilot into Exchange Server on-prem
Survey probes interest in AI assistance for locally hosted email setups
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 30
Google porting all internal workloads to Arm, with help from GenAI
YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2025 | 28
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148
Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge
DevOps guru and ex-Googler say vibes beat reading diffs but there are risks
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 47
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SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew
Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft
Ransomed CTO falls on sword, refuses to pay extortion demand
Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research
De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now
opinion Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...
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
Kubernetes overlords decide Ingress NGINX isn’t worth saving
Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’
Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don't save much time
Feature 'Stay in control and think for yourself'
AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
Who, Me? In the dialup age, small mistakes could cost big money
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list
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Russia’s first autonomous humanoid robot staggers and falls on debut
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Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day
That's 46 minutes in which more work can be done, not an extended lunch
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 129
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
NordVPN open sources its Linux GUI client under GPLv3
Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago
Networks16 Oct 2025 | 11
Locked out of your Gmail account? Google says phone a friend
Recovery feature lets trusted contacts help you get back in when other methods fail
Personal Tech16 Oct 2025 | 13
End of support for older Office and Windows Server versions pile on the pain for admins
Windows 10 is the least of some people's problems
Applications16 Oct 2025 | 40
X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users
Meet [user] from [location]
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 17
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses
Applications15 Oct 2025 | 50
Unwary SAP private cloud users face 10% renewal hikes, warns Gartner
On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing
Databases14 Oct 2025 |
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education, says data watchdog
Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR
SaaS13 Oct 2025 | 25
Britain's biggest nuclear site looks set to outlast SAP support again
Sellafield considers using legacy ECC software beyond extended 2030 cut-off
Applications13 Oct 2025 | 9
Exchange Online will start archiving your oldest emails before your inbox bursts
Microsoft promises fewer 'mailbox full' errors in face of message deluge
Applications08 Oct 2025 | 17
UK Home Office opens wallet for £60M automated number plate project
Department eyes new app to tap national ANPR data for live alerts, searches, and integrations
Public Sector07 Oct 2025 | 50
Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide
Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline
Applications06 Oct 2025 | 49
Apple ices ICE agent tracker app under government heat
Cupertino yanks ICEBlock citing safety risks for law enforcement
Applications03 Oct 2025 | 82
Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast
On Call Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid
Databases03 Oct 2025 | 115
Dirty little Electron secret tanks macOS 26 performance
Apple's bad QA or poor coding by developers?
Applications02 Oct 2025 | 10
Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future
Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running
Software01 Oct 2025 | 11
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check
Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?
Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 29
Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
Adds more Anthropic into the mix as Redmond hedges its bets
AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 16
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'
Open source Android app store cannot exist if Google's plans go ahead, says F-Droid board member
Applications29 Sep 2025 | 90
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
SAP's 'simplified' licensing leaves users more confused
Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey
SaaS25 Sep 2025 | 2
UK.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half
Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now
Public Sector23 Sep 2025 | 5
HCL stretches support window for Domino v9/v10 despite repeated end-of-life deadlines
The corpse of Lotus Notes keeps twitching
Applications23 Sep 2025 | 5
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
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
Q: How many Excel users do you need to correctly set the number formatting of a cell? A: Monday, January 1st, 1900
Applications19 Sep 2025 | 68
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
On Call Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance
Applications19 Sep 2025 | 187
Workday U-turns on rehiring pledge as activist investors take $2B stake
Layoffs to stand following $1.1B AI acquisition
SaaS18 Sep 2025 | 7
Return on investment for Copilot? Microsoft has work to do
Jared Spataro, boss of modern work and biz apps division, says 'hard to make the ROI argument for it'
AI + ML17 Sep 2025 | 42
Strong Java LTS arrives with the release of 25
But efforts to simplify popular programming language for beginners are unlikely to boost popularity
Software17 Sep 2025 | 8
Rust-style safety model for C++ 'rejected' as profiles take priority
Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work'
Applications16 Sep 2025 | 58
The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it
Beware the meeting room zombies
Personal Tech16 Sep 2025 | 18
Even fantasy money can buy a lot of power – just ask Larry Ellison
Opinion As doubts grow over who will pay to stuff Oracle's cloud pipeline, the octogenarian spreads his wings
AI + ML15 Sep 2025 | 32
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
Microsoft reminds developers VBScript really is going away
Classes moved to VBA, but upgrading and testing is unavoidable
Software10 Sep 2025 | 22
Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up
Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality
AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10
Rethinking application delivery for the hybrid world
Why bake apps into your OS when you can deliver them as a side dish?
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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
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
Public Sector04 Sep 2025 | 116
UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs
Warnings of internal skills shortages fail to quell appetite for hand-holding
Public Sector03 Sep 2025 | 20
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach
Cyber-crime02 Sep 2025 | 3
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
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026
Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web
Applications29 Aug 2025 | 7
Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Web browsing belongs to the people, not the bots
Applications28 Aug 2025 | 20
Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly
Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats
Applications28 Aug 2025 | 38
AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas
Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200
Applications28 Aug 2025 | 20
Law firm email blunder exposes Church of England abuse victim details
Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailing
CSO28 Aug 2025 | 25
Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S
Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default
Applications27 Aug 2025 | 47
Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL
Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts
Applications27 Aug 2025 | 23
Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI
It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material
AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 43
Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register
Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates
Applications26 Aug 2025 | 82
Thunderbird 142 lands with modest upgrades – plus talk of Pro service ahead
Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline
Applications22 Aug 2025 | 36
OneNote for Windows 10 support clock counts down
Just over 50 days until Microsoft pulls the plug
Applications22 Aug 2025 | 31
Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links
CRLite, link previews, and a llama-shaped surprise for devs
Applications22 Aug 2025 | 35
Microsoft puts the squeeze on onmicrosoft.com freeloaders
Windows giant takes aim at spammers exploiting new 365 tenants
Applications22 Aug 2025 | 24
LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows
Applications21 Aug 2025 | 41
Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America
What testing is happening before changes hit production?
Applications21 Aug 2025 | 23
Google tweaks Play Store fees to keep Euro watchdogs at bay
Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'
Applications20 Aug 2025 | 6
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
Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution
Hands On Making apps is as easy as selling t-shirts, claims vibe coding startup
AI + ML14 Aug 2025 | 18
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
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
Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services
Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M
Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2025 | 6
Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps
Black hat Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed
Research08 Aug 2025 | 4
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
Microsoft reminds developers that Visual Studio 2015 is set for retirement
October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world
Applications06 Aug 2025 | 6
Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears
Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch
Databases06 Aug 2025 | 49
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
Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection
Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too
Security05 Aug 2025 | 11
Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'
Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK
Applications05 Aug 2025 | 57
Court upholds Epic win in Google Play Store antitrust battle
Appeals panel says Chocolate Factory abused its dominance in Android app distribution
Legal01 Aug 2025 | 8
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
Capgemini wins £107M HMRC extension – no competition needed
Updated Deal for legacy applications support reaches £322M as they continue to be decommissioned
Public Sector31 Jul 2025 | 16
Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy
Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves
AI + ML30 Jul 2025 | 27
Microsoft pops legacy Exchange public folders on the chopping block
Support for migrations to be scrapped come October
Applications29 Jul 2025 | 5
Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?
'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at home
Software24 Jul 2025 | 66
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