Paul Kunert

3 days ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.

4 days ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections." Ever since the Trump 2.0 administration assumed office and implemented an erratic and unprecedented foreign policy stance, including aggressive tariffs and threats to the national sovereignty of Greenland and Canada, customers in Europe have voiced unease about...

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Microsoft yesterday used a town hall meeting to leak details tell staff about a 100,000 license contract signed with Barclays to use Copilot. Or so says a report in Bloomberg, which quoted loquacious sources that asked for anonymity before they discussed comments they say were made by Microsoft's chief commercial officer Judson Althoff.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Despite high-profile calls for employees to get their butts back behind their desks in a traditional workplace setting, more people - at least in the UK - are ignoring return-to-office mandates, a study has found. Researchers at King’s College London (KCL) and King’s Business School analyzed more than one million observations from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and some 50,000 responses from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) UK.

3 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Microsoft is offering to make a series of concessions for up to ten years to pacify European Commission antitrust regulators. This follows protests from users that tying Teams with its biz productivity applications hinders competition. The executive body of the EU confirmed today it is seeking feedback on those modificaitons proposed by the US cloud and software corporation.