After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court – and we listened in
Special reportDon’t worry, it’s only the future of software development at stake
07 Oct 2020 | 235
Software
A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong
Who, Me?A Register reader's sense of déjà vu triggers a bonus column
07 Oct 2020 | 185
Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets
ColumnSome things simply don't belong in regulatory environments
06 Oct 2020 | 263
FFS FSF, you're 35 already? Hands up if you just sprouted a grey hair or felt a craving for a Werthers Original on reading that. Happy birthday, folks
Pour a bowl of granola and celebrate free and open software
06 Oct 2020 | 35
Consultant leading Surrey County Council's £30m jump to new ERP system will bag £177,000 as £83m cuts bite local citizens
Go-live date of 1 December 2021 or authority incurs the full cost of SAP support and maintenance for 2022
06 Oct 2020 | 17
Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?
IRC-for-the-2020s up and down as it catches a bad case of the Mondays
05 Oct 2020 | 6
What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases
UpdatedAll amid a second wave of the bio-nasty
05 Oct 2020 | 289
Windows 10 to let you know that your SSD is dying rather than throwing out a BSOD when it's already too late
In briefAlso: Users split across 3 versions of OS, PowerToys update, MRTK support for Oculus Quest 2
05 Oct 2020 | 22
Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant
RHEL 7.9 also here – last major version in the 7.x family?
02 Oct 2020 | 50
Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it
Despite Android dwarfing the iPhone ecosystem
02 Oct 2020 | 16
SAP swallows Emarsys whole in quest for customer-facing software... with a personal touch
Meanwhile, similar buy Qualtrics continues to enjoy quasi-independence
02 Oct 2020 |
GitHub users speak their brains on Microsoft's open-source efforts: ASP.NET shines, but WPF is 'a disaster'
An open-source project that can't handle pull requests isn't a good look
02 Oct 2020 | 22
Microsoft Exchange 2010 support ends in a matter of days and there are 139,000 internet-facing servers still up
Research finds orgs taking big chances with unpatched email relays
02 Oct 2020 | 25
Salesforce, Deloitte try to flog contact-tracing wares to a UK public sector that's already got a £12bn test-and-trace system
... which Deloitte helped build
01 Oct 2020 | 16
Ocado shakes hands with Oracle on cloud ERP system to help it ply online grocer tech in overseas markets
Sounds a bit like what Salesforce denies it worked on
01 Oct 2020 | 7
Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last
News from the Department of Wait, It Didn't Already Do That?
01 Oct 2020 | 69
NHS England awards £1.6m deal to build digital staff 'passports' in fight against coronavirus second wave
Leaving it a bit late, aren't we? They better be blue
30 Sep 2020 | 24
Apple, Epic trade barbs in App Store brouhaha while judge pins July for jury time
But will Fortnite be allowed back into the walled garden in the meantime?
29 Sep 2020 | 16
Oracle gears up to fend off RPA and workflow upstarts by pouring more automation into core enterprise apps
Larry walks onto porch with shotgun in arm, takes aim at pesky critters
29 Sep 2020 | 7
Yet another twist for 2020: Google says Android 12 will make it easier to install alternative app stores
And, cough, cough, don't forget to use Google Play's billing system
29 Sep 2020 | 7
Ignite your SQL Server with a broken Cumulative Update
In briefPlus: All the rest from Microsoft's shindig – it's only wafer-thin
29 Sep 2020 |
Apple tailors Swift System library for open source and Linux support
Multi-platform not cross-platform, says company – enough to increase interest in the language?
28 Sep 2020 | 3
NHS COVID-19 app's first weekend: With fundamental testing flaw ironed out, bugs remaining are relatively trivial
Shaky start out of the gates and still some issues, but at least it's here
28 Sep 2020 | 144
SAP S/4HANA rollout at Queensland Health went so well that hospitals bent over backwards to avoid using it
UpdatedLeading to AU$540m in late invoice payments
28 Sep 2020 | 18
Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
Happening in plain sight with Proton, WSL and Edge-for-Linux, says open source advocate
28 Sep 2020 | 237
TikTok wins reprieve as judge rules it can stay in American iOS, Android app stores for now
Justice won't say why he granted injunction, orders Uncle Sam and vid app maker to keep talking
28 Sep 2020 | 8
Exercise-tracking app Strava to give away data sweated out after four billion runs, rides and rambles
Anonymous trove offered to help urban planners cope with expected post-plague bike boom
28 Sep 2020 | 22
Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one!
25 Sep 2020 | 191
Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project
UpdatedLegacy app 'asset reuse' left hanging for now
25 Sep 2020 | 6
HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market
To compete against Salesforce, Oracle and co, software slinger needs to do more, says analyst
25 Sep 2020 | 2
Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets
This revolution will be televised... on the internet
24 Sep 2020 | 27
Microsoft sprinkles a little Skype Meet Now integration on Windows 10 for Insiders
Plus: Annoying chat show host asks 'What the hell happened to Skype?' and users cry out: Let my People go... or at least banish it from Start
24 Sep 2020 | 20
NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'
So... totally seamless then
24 Sep 2020 | 119
New Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Project Server versions inbound, but only available on subscription
IgniteDinosaurs get one last roar
24 Sep 2020 | 6
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods
Solution? A software update, natch
24 Sep 2020 | 91
England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data
Just in time for the second wave and new movement restrictions
24 Sep 2020 | 222
