Re: Tried to sell this to them nearly a decade ago...
I always thought that BITS updates looked a lot like hobbled torrents.
Maybe I had the wrong end of the stick, I'm not of the Windows Persuasion.
ServiceNow founder Fred Luddy sells $13.2m stake in 'defining enterprise software company of the 21st century'
.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics
Pst... Is that the sound of your Outlook backups leaking?
Huawei chairman says tech giant's goal is ‘survival’ as it battles ‘non-stop aggression’
Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS
Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps
With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action
Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime
Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered over attack on German hospital that allegedly caused death of a patient
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*
Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns
Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk
Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'
Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one
Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl
You can add comms API merchant Twilio to the list of tech firms that have seen biz booming thanks to lockdown
UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary
Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop
Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors
It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash
Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition
Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road
TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content
Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S
Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles
And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time
To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital
SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve
China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency
Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything
Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing
UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition
Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space
Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play
As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!
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