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Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger

SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 125

Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

On Call Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat

SaaS10 Jan 2025 | 79

Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown

Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago

Software06 Jan 2025 | 3

Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes

Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg

SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11

Alibaba Cloud brings chatty SaaS products out of China and into more markets

Teams-like DingTalk gets an enterprise edition, and virtual Androids unleashed

SaaS25 Nov 2024 |

Dropbox to shed another 500 staff, CEO takes 'full responsibility'

Cloudy concern has also spent over $500M buying back its own shares amid multiple rounds of layoffs

SaaS31 Oct 2024 | 65

Microsoft turning away AI training workloads – inferencing makes better money

Azure's acceleration continues, but so do costs

AI + ML31 Oct 2024 | 18

Microsoft reshuffles execs in Europe, Middle East and Africa unit

UK CEO becomes EMEA president after taking on role in Brit industrial strategy

PaaS + IaaS28 Oct 2024 | 1

Billionaire SaaS CEO loses title after week of sleaze allegations

Not much more than a slap on the wrist as WiseTech boss stays on in new role and keeps salary

Legal25 Oct 2024 | 6

On-prem SaaS? ServiceNow will do it if you ask nicely, and really need it

Turns out its application can work with databases other than its own

SaaS24 Oct 2024 | 6

IBM acquires Indian SaaS startup Prescinto to shine a light on renewable energy assets

Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam

SaaS16 Oct 2024 | 1

Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure

Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers

Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 2

Fresh court filing accuses Oracle of creating 'maze' of options 'hidden' in 'contract'

Big Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out

SaaS02 Oct 2024 | 33

China's tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India

GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake

SaaS18 Sep 2024 |

Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead

Insert coin to continue

Applications12 Sep 2024 | 9

Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats

Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains

SaaS29 Aug 2024 | 5

Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025

Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future

SaaS28 Aug 2024 | 30

Choose Your Own Adventure with Microsoft 365

You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 39

Walmart clears out its shares of Chinese e-tailer JD.com

That’s one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 1

China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage

WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21

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How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish

Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian

OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

The S in LLM stands for Security

Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark

Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap

Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency

Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs

AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise

Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format

Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?

Who, Me? A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble

Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

Infosec in brief PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more

Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

Students have work to complete at home in the meantime

Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions?

Comment While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'

Insight Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs probe

SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 36

Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry

Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares

SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 9

Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage

Shut the Front Door!

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?

Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66

Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK

Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?

SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 113

ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire

But the books look good, because of real AI

SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 2

Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged

Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response

SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8

Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group

Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world

Legal16 Jul 2024 | 21

Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR

Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges

SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8

BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage

Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs

SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 19

Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay

Board to take non-binding vote at mega SaaS haus into consideration

SaaS02 Jul 2024 | 8

EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365

Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023

SaaS25 Jun 2024 | 23

Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside

Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws

SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13

Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots

Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do

AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11

After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira

Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license

SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12

Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids

Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video

AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2

SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA

SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10

Salesforce expects lowest quarterly growth in two decades

Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant

SaaS30 May 2024 | 5

EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday

Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits

SaaS24 May 2024 | 3

HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog

Already delayed, IBM and Deloitte's 'Single Trade Window' presents SaaSy challenge's to tax collector

Public Sector20 May 2024 | 36

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see

SaaS14 May 2024 | 2

AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security

RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'

AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5

Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info

Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage

Security02 May 2024 | 20

Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project

Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead

SaaS27 Apr 2024 | 12

Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so

Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders

SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 5

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins

Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187

Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more

First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason

SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15

British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts

Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive

AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4

SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council

8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses

SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal

Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts

SaaS04 Apr 2024 | 54

EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services

Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing

SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29

ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI

Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time

Software21 Mar 2024 | 3

Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division

FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired

AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase

Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials

CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11

Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term

Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues

AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57

Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases

But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there?

AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2

SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower

Updated Claims exec was moved to 'retire in place' role are now settled

SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 9

Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs

Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised

SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26

European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use

Euro folk have until December to put house in order

Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly

AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50

UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal

Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely

SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33

NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion

Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach

SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28

Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers

Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more

SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem

SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35

Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers

Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra

SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45

Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs

We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43

Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter

Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass?

SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6

Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats

Updated Small businesses need not apply

SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers

SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19

So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

Epic redundancies all round

SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45

Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion

Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation

SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25

ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust

You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy

SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1

Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today

Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA

SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3

Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months

Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says

SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27

Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API

One more reason to keep them short and sweet

SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23

Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe

Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings

SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19

Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform

Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape'

SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26

Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers

And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week

SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68

It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365

Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws

SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42

Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues

Come back Teams, all is forgiven

SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14

MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes

Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3

SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2

Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office

Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app

SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44

Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices

Just think of the margins

SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?

SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22

Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

Updated Fight! Fight! Fight!

SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24

Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software

Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims

SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4

Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation

Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As

SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14

Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office

Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate

SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14

Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day

Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it

SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36

CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip

After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle

SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1

Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click

Ingest, integrate... and imprison

SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6

Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting

Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation

SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4

Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft

Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew

SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23

Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage

Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook

SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20

Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage

Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching

SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22

Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024

At least Redmond listens to some customers

SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1

Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce

Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve

SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3

Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead

Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker

SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29

Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code

Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As

SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8

Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year

Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs

SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8

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