Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'?
Opinion Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us
Software15 Jul 2024 |
Rupert Goodwins is a regular Register columnist and a veteran technology journalist. His career spans writing ROM code at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s for the ZX Spectrum to magazine technical editor, website editor, and fiction writer.
Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
Opinion Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century
AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 39
Polyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go?
Opinion There will always be bad actors in the system. We can always learn from the drama they create
Security01 Jul 2024 | 19
Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain
Opinion Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?
Security24 Jun 2024 | 41
Can platform-wide AI ever fit into enterprise security?
Opinion You know what they say about headlines that end in a question mark
AI + ML17 Jun 2024 | 7
Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure
Opinion Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ...
Software10 Jun 2024 | 83
Broadcom’s VMware strategy looks ever more shaky - and less relevant
Opinion Yes, it’s that darned AI again
Virtualization03 Jun 2024 | 25
Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime
Opinion In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 3
So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters
Opinion Has Cupertino been trolling us all along?
Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 118
You want us to think of the children? Couldn't agree more
Opinion But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all
Security13 May 2024 | 80
A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no
Opinion Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad
Personal Tech07 May 2024 | 22
The chip that changed my world – and yours
Opinion Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech
Systems29 Apr 2024 | 94
Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam
Opinion What if it's not AI but the algorithm to blame?
Security22 Apr 2024 | 39
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card
Opinion We've done it once, we can do it again
Public Sector08 Apr 2024 | 73
Apple's GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed
Opinion Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind
Security02 Apr 2024 | 23
Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare
Opinion Mistakes years in the making tell a universal story that must not be ignored
Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 103
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle
Networks18 Mar 2024 | 96
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not
Databases11 Mar 2024 | 32
The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us
Opinion When you can't lock 'em up, lock 'em out
Cyber-crime04 Mar 2024 | 27
The self-created risk in Broadcom's big VMware kiss-off
Opinion Arise, the new Migration Nation
Virtualization26 Feb 2024 | 28
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable
Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?
Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen
Opinion We’ve still got time to make it better before it does
AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 45
That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data
Opinion The one thing you don't want your data security to be is, er, edgy
Software05 Feb 2024 | 77
That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century
Opinion We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it
On-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 120
The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response
Opinion Never let a good crisis go to waste
Public Sector22 Jan 2024 | 190
The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128
Opinion If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people
Personal Tech15 Jan 2024 | 137
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Opinion FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way
OSes08 Jan 2024 | 61
Navigating the truth maze in a world of clever machines and cleverer marketers
Opinion Recognizing what's unique about AI will give us the tools to keep it in check
AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 17
How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack
Opinion Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate
Personal Tech25 Dec 2023 | 41
CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves
Opinion The magic that defied the iron will of Steve Jobs has a lot more to offer
OSes18 Dec 2023 | 176
How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators
Opinion Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case
Personal Tech11 Dec 2023 | 129
You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing
Opinion Fresh thinking and new approaches can only come from varied cohorts of people
Devops04 Dec 2023 | 26
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?
Opinion Unique institutions need unique security. Instead, they're fobbed off with the same old, same old
Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 26
Net privacy wars will be with us always. Let's set some rules
Opinion Size matters, and what you do with it. But keep it safe
Networks20 Nov 2023 | 29
Introducing the tech that keeps the lights on
Opinion Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT – this superhero is ready to make a real difference
Security13 Nov 2023 | 21
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Opinion Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness
Personal Tech06 Nov 2023 | 198
Intel's PC chip ship is sinking with Arm-ada on the horizon
Opinion That's what happens when you completely misread the market
Systems30 Oct 2023 | 84
Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected
Opinion In a world of incremental updates, Windows 12 won't be Windows 12
OSes23 Oct 2023 | 163
Excel Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained
Opinion Microsoft's Steve Ballmer once called open source a cancer. Today's diagnosis points to a different cause
Software16 Oct 2023 | 123
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair
Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please
PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh
Opinion How's he done? tl;dr – not very well
Personal Tech02 Oct 2023 | 167
The home Wi-Fi upgrade we never asked for is coming. The one we need is not
Column 46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6
Networks25 Sep 2023 | 139
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure
Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices
Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 202
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software?
Opinion Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed
Databases11 Sep 2023 | 101
IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?
Opinion Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough
Networks04 Sep 2023 | 116
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on
Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation
Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 32
Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead
Opinion Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don't snitch
Security21 Aug 2023 | 316
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors
Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez
OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth
Opinion Voyager's mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors
Science07 Aug 2023 | 43
What would sustainable security even look like?
Opinion Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today
CSO31 Jul 2023 | 40
World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems
Opinion What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can't hear you
Off-Prem24 Jul 2023 | 63
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel
Opinion War is obscene but it's also responsible for many technological advances
AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 17
The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
Opinion When the world’s on fire, what number do you call?
Networks03 Jul 2023 | 229
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer
Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?
AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts
Software12 Jun 2023 | 80
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs
Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde
Software05 Jun 2023 | 111
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it
Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 93
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy
Opinion It’s about power and money alright, just not like that
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week22 May 2023 | 46
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