Open Document? DropBox? Check. Google Drive? NOOO
Microsoft has revealed more information on its plans for Office on mobile devices: iOS, Android and Windows phones and tablets.…
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Apple scuttles NTP flaw in OS X
Don’t start that holiday just yet, admins…
Apple has slipped out a patch to address the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability in its OS X operating system.…
Microsoft patch mashes Office forms and macros
Fixing Redmond’s fixes … AGAIN!
Microsoft’s December patching palaver keeps getting worse, with news that one of this month’s brood is breaking Excel macros.…
Frustration with Elite:Dangerous boils over into ‘Refund Quest’
>> You are trying to secure a refund from an unscrupulous developer
Frustration with Frontier Developments’ less-than-pleasing response to fans miffed that Elite:Dangerous doesn’t feature a single-player mode has sparked a new game titled “Refund Quest”.…
Microsoft shutters Office 365’s free web site service
Feature won’t be replaced but price stays the same
Microsoft is terminating its SharePoint Online Public Website service, effective January 2015.…
YEAR of the PENGUIN: A Linux mobile in 2015?
Choh. Just as they sort the desktop out, bloody PCs disappear
It’s nearly impossible to sum up an entire year of developments in something as large and nebulous as the world of desktop Linux, especially in a year like this one which has seen some the best releases that projects like Mint, Fedora and openSUSE have put out to date.…
Love the cloud? Be a ‘Cloud Hero’ with Microsoft
Take the challenge, win prizes
Promo Microsoft UK are offering you the chance to bank some ‘Cloud Hero’ kudos along with a raft of prizes in exchange for completing some tasks in Azure.…
Windows Server 2003 custom support could cost MILLIONS
Got a few million tucked under the mattress for Microsoft?
Business leaders who dismissed calls from the IT department to migrate off Windows Server 2003 as nothing more than a maintenance exercise could be left rueing a potentially costly seven-figure financial howler.…
Untangling .NET Core: Open source for Windows, Mac, Linux
More changes, but it’ll be different this time, honest
Exclusive Interview It is all change in the Microsoft .NET World, as the company takes the technology open source and cross-platform. But how will old and new fit together? El Reg speaks to Director of Program Management Jay Schmelzer.…
Rivals feel power of EMC’s storage software bite
Market bounces in Q3, but somebody forgot to tell Symantec and IBM
IDC’s latest storage software (SW) tracker numbers show top dog EMC is continuing to rule the kennels, with a chunkier market share than both its nearest rivals combined.…