Nyet to Redmondian probe tentacles up our ass
Russian lawyers have filed a complaint calling for an outright ban – or at least tight restrictions – over the sale of Windows 10 in Russia.…
Twenty years since Windows 95, and we still love our Start buttons
Back when you could still get results by inserting a floppy
Microsoft released Windows 95 on 24th August 1995, followed a week later by Office 95, and accompanied by a publicity campaign featuring the Rolling Stones song Start Me Up.…
Microsoft issues first SharePoint 2016 preview
Cloud. Hybrid. Compliance. Collaboration. Search. Any device. Touch. HTML5. BINGO!
Microsoft has released the first preview of SharePoint Server 2016 and outlined a buzzword-list of new features.…
Cortana Android beta goes public
It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to press a button
Microsoft’s Cortana-on-Android project, first announced in May, has now evolved to the point at which the virtual assistant has been released as a beta.…
Swiss watch: Cuckoo-clock cops threaten Win 10 whup-ass can pop
Silicon Valley ‘eats away at our freedom every day’
Switzerland’s top data cop says Microsoft has “gone too far” in abusing people’s privacy.…
Vodafone UK rocks the bloat with demands for vanilla Android
You want plain, colourless Lollipops, have them, says Motorola
Vodafone UK wants to sell Android phones which are as close to stock (as Google intended) as possible, and the red company’s favourite device for this is the Moto G.…
Using SQL techniques in NoSQL is OK, right? WRONG
Don’t try and cut corners, or you’ll end up in a twisty, tangly mess
Now that we have CQL for Cassandra and N1QL for Couchbase, it seems the power of SQL is being opened for NoSQL database developers.…
Wileyfox smartphones: SD card, no bloatware, Cyanogen, big battery – yes to all!
OK Register readers, shout in unison: ‘Sign us up’
New British mobe maker Wileyfox has launched a pair of Cyanogen smartphones.…
AT&T accused of Wi-Fi interception, ad injection
Security? They’ve heard of it but don’t seem in a rush to do it very well
AT&T has been accused of grabbing user traffic from its Wi-Fi hotspots for ad injection.…
GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
What’s that big spike on site performance graph?
GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.…