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Microsoft To Phase Out Windows 10 S, Just Months After Launch
The stripped-down Windows 10 S is to disappear as a stand-alone product in Microsoft's spring revamp of the Windows product range
IT LIFE: Morten Primdahl, Zendesk CTO
Morten Primdahl talks about his career in IT and how Zendesk transformed from a server in a cupboard to 110,000 customers and 2,000 employees
IBM Outlines Prospects For Java In 2018
ANALYSIS: Java is still hugely popular, particularly for client-server web applications, with 9m developers. Its beauty is that it’s an evolving technology
IBM Finally Returns To Growth, But It’s Not All Good News
For the first time in 23 quarters sales at IBM have risen, but a quarterly loss and stagnant forecast blunts the news
Oracle Issues Patches For Spectre & Meltdown Flaws
More patching for system administrators as Oracle releases 237 fixes to counter Spectre, Meltdown flaws
Veeam Buys AWS Enterprise Continuity Start-Up For £31m
N2WS provides cloud-native enterprise backup and recovery systems for Amazon Web Services, which leads the cloud platform market
Barcelona Aims To Oust Microsoft In Open Source Drive
The Catalonian capital is aiming to supplant proprietary software including Outlook, Office and Internet Explorer by the spring of next year
DeepMind Chief Recognised In New Year Honours List
Demis Hassabis has been named CBE for breakthroughs by the controversial Google-owned British artificial intelligence company
Apple Hit By Class-Action Lawsuits Over iPhone Slowdown
Three lawsuits filed in Illinois and California allege Apple 'interfered' with users' handsets, leading to a loss of value and 'overpayments' to Apple
Tales In Tech History: Novell
Not many tech firms come from the US state of Utah, but for many years Novell was the bedrock of local area networks
IT LIFE: Wendy Paine, Logicalis UK
Wendy Paine from Logicalis takes use through her career in IT and talks about skiing, cycling, and, er, Citrix
Microsoft Previews Quantum Computing Language Q#
The company's quantum computing development kit includes the Q# language as well as local and cloud simulators, libraries and sample code
IT LIFE: Dan Martland, Edge Testing Solutions
Dan Martland from Edge Testing Solutions talks about how his hobby became a career and the importance of software testing
Mozilla To Build Breach Notifications Into Firefox Browser
A planned feature, currently in early testing, would alert users when they use a site that's recently been affected by a data breach
Munich Approves €49.3m Windows 10 Migration Plan
The city Linux desktop programme has come to an end with the vote to spend more than €50m euros to roll out Windows 10 desktops across the council
CA Technologies CTO: We’ve Had To Adapt To Stay Relevant
CA WORLD 2017: CA Technologies UK CTO Rob Coleman explains the shift at the company and why its accelerator programme epitomises the changes
GitHub Notifies Developers If Their Software Project Has A Security...
GitHub says move is an important step for open source security
Microsoft Office 365 Diary: LinkedIn AI Promises To Help People Write...
OFFICE 365 NEWS: Microsoft says insights gained from LinkedIn can help users write better CVs
IT LIFE: Mark Heath, Alfresco
Mark Heath talks about his journey from aerospace tech to software via networks and Symbian. And why he wanted to be a train driver
Startup Showcase: Audio Analytic
Audio Analytic CEO Chris Mitchell talks about his firm's vision for 'Audio Intelligence'
Microsoft’s Digital Transformation Missive Is A Slow-Burn...
OPINION: Microsoft's keeps providing the tools for genuinely useful digital transformation rather than touting tired disruption rhetoric.
Google Docs Problem Raises Privacy Concerns, Again
Problems with locked Google Docs files raises privacy concerns due to its monitoring of private files
McAfee Ends Government Source Code Reviews
The US security firm has banned future reviews of its products' source code by governments amidst growing tension over cyber-espionage
Facebook’s Workplace Chat Comes To Windows And Mac Desktops
Facebook boasts 30,000 organisations worldwide use its business chat service
Google Allows Third-Party Add-ons For Gmail
Gmail opened up for direct integration with business applications across desktop and mobile devices
Microsoft To Offer Cray Supercomputers On Azure Cloud Platform
Microsoft and Cray are to link supercomputers directly into Azure data centres, providing high-end scalability for AI workloads
Mirai-Like IoT Botnet ‘Has Already Hacked Millions Of...
The Reaper botnet is expanding more aggressively than Mirai did and has the potential to cause more disruption, researchers say
Windows Trick ‘Can Spread Malware Through Outlook Emails’
The unpatched security vulnerability allows attackers to use a Windows code-sharing feature to trigger malware using formatted Outlook messages
Mac Users Targeted By Malware Unwittingly Distributed By A Popular...
ESET says it found the OSX/Proton malware in a version of Eltima's media player