Posts by PeterM42

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Re: I'll wait

Don't hold your breath!

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

It's difficult to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes to quality.

It's EASY to pinpoint precisely where it went wrong for Microsoft when it comes to quality. - There! FTFY

Bill Gates stepped down from his full-time executive role at Microsoft in 2008, leaving his position as chairman in 2014 and resigning from the board entirely in 2020.

China's president Xi Jinping jokes about backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones

Not good

I remember telling a non-techie about Huawei phones being bugged.

He laughed because he had a Huawei phone.

His phone laughed too.

UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B

More of our taxpayer money to be wasted.....

.... Rachael from Accounts, backed by Sir Rodney Plonker and his money-wasting team.

Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

On no!

Back to the opticians for some new specs.

How the ONS data-sharing dream ended in budget cuts and three rival platforms

".... ask how the government ended up with three different systems for doing just that."

Answer: GROSS INCOMPETENCE.

Irony alert: UK.gov Work dept hires IBM to aid AI projects

Government?

It's

Being

Misled

'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab

Don't forget the basic rules of government IT procurement

1) It will cost more than estimated.

2) It will go to one of the known big boys in Govt systems or a friend of the PM.

3) It will not work even if you (the public) throw more money at it.

4) Failure will be blamed on the previous government.

5) Consultants will make lots of money "consulting" on it.

Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst

As Shakespeare wrote:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend."

Also, "There is little point in pumping expensive air into a punctured deflating balloon." (Quote from me.)

Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to force SAP support as sanctions bite

Deal with the Devil....

...get burnt.

UK agency makes arrest in airport cyberattack investigation

If it was a disgruntled ex-employee....

....give him the job of locking the system down properly in mitigation for a lighter sentence.

French jet left circling while Corsican controller caught Zs

Tsk! Tsk!

There should ALWAYS be more than one person on duty in ATC.

The end of Windows 10 means early Surface Hub hardware will be bricking it

How long......

....before LARGE corporations get p**d off with this EXPENSIVE constant refresh/upgrade cycle and go open source?

Roll on Android on the desktop/laptop.

Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid

Oh No!

Does this mean I will be stuck with VerminMedia as BT's OpenReach has not yet put fibre down near my house?

Home Office delays £816M English test contract despite market engagement

Q: "Why so expensive"?

A: Because our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government wants to look as though they are doing something to help all those immigrants (including asylum seekers) flooding into a country that doesn't want/need ANY MORE!

Our TOTALLY INCOMPETENT government does not spend THEIR money, they spend OURS. so they really do not give a s**t when they waste it. Which they do - consistently.

Eg: HS2, NHS, "Great British Rail". Need I go on?

So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.

My presentation on "Office Automation" in the 1980'........

....included the comment that "the paperless office was about as likely and as useful as the paperless loo (toilet)"

IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead

What!?!

You mean IBM is still in business?!?!

Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026

Poor old Microsoft

They never did "get" (understand) phones, did they.

Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess

Patches

" .......a patch emerged to patch the patch."

Was that the patch for the patch for the patch for the security update which was to patch an issue caused by an earlier patch?

Or,

etc., etc., etc.,

One wonders how much of Windoze is now patches compared to actual "original" code?

40%?

50%?

more?

Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

At the current rate of progress.......

....we won't be making anything, inventing anything or exporting any services.

The entire WORKforce (is anybody still working?) tendering to the needs of illegal immigrants and people who get permanent "sick notes" because they don't feel like working and feel the government should pay for their food, accommodation, energy, transport, massive TVs, iPhones. iPads, etc.

All at the expense of people who are wealthy enough to not need to work or have retired.

August update leaves Windows reset and recovery dead in the water

Plus ça change

Just wait for Android on the desktop/laptop.

Microsoft patch Tuesday update fails to install

Microsoft patch Tuesday update fails to install?????

....so what were you actually expecting?????

Tom Lehrer: Satirist, mathematician, inventor of the Jello shot

Goodbye....

.....to SHEER GENIUS.

RIP

Outlook takes another sick day

So....

........ we have:-

Outlook - part of the MS Office suite (expensive installable client software)

Outlook - The piece of CRAP that replaced the pretty awful "Windows Mail" on Windows 11 (aka Windows version 10.0.22000+) - You get what you pay for!!!

Outlook - part of the appalling subscription Microsoft/Office 364½

Outlook.com (the website) (If it's working - hence 364½ or worse) - Not to be confused with hotmail.com, hotmail.co.uk, live.co.uk, etc., etc. (even though they seem to log in via a different portal to what you would expect!

Have I missed anything??????

Total lack of oversight since Bill Gates handed control over to the idiots!

Sheesh!!!!!

Microsoft pushes $4B at AI education for the masses

This particular bubble.........

....already has a puncture (leads to a flat tyre in USA Speak).

As everyone else indicates, the money could be MUCH better spent - On TESTING SOFTWARE RELEASES, for example. Yes, I'm looking at YOU, Microsoft.

Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs

Re: Only US roads?

"Microsoft is expanding our presence in India" - we all know what THAT means.

Microsoft admits to Intune forgetfulness

From Microsoft.........

.........yet another "schoolboy error".

Intel totals automotive group

Typical IT Manufacturing life-cycle:

- Invent something everyone wants.

- Grow big on the proceeds.

- Grow even bigger on the fame and proceeds.

- Start ignoring the opposition as they are "not important".

- Start ignoring what your customer wants (like exponentially better products at a cheaper price).

- Ignore all the minnows of competition running under your feet & past your legs.

- Begin to realise all these minnows have produced better products at cheaper prices.

- Start cutting back, so that it becomes impossible to compete.

Empire State to site 1 GW nuke as AI bit barns guzzle power

"Clean" Energy?

Not nuclear, then. The waste is about as dirty as it is possible to get.

The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge

Re: Weird AI

Font failure!

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off

AhHa! - it seems like......

......the AI "bubble" is bursting already.

Albeit a slow puncture, as idiots pour money into pumping it up.

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

Whatever.....

They don't make 'em like that any more.

Do they Boeing????

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

Some facts:

AI is clever stuff, but it is NOT "intelligence".

50% of the population are BELOW average intelligence.

Nuclear fusion is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.

Quantum Computing is the tech dream of the past, the present and for the future.

Microsoft still cannot produce fault-free software.

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Easy Answer:

I always treat OneDrive as a VIRUS.

So perform required steps to remove said VIRUS.

Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar

Re: 90 Minutes to install a patch????

Test, test and test again. This is NOT Microsoft.

The only thing you can do quickly when it comes to aircraft, is crash.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: Surface Hub reboot?

Or even a proper computer such as the Blackview MP60 with decent storage and full-blooded Windows.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226158667320?_skw=blackview+mini+pc&itmmeta=01JRB4CQRV53BJGZY4VQNSWQNX&hash=item34a81b6638:g:Uj4AAOSwSHBmTwdp&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dosaM5zcivxQ8S0nozJwYnMMjICHClQqJXVCAO%2FUQcNTteTjqiwsWjej9c6VvhtinxluvKCgEi1z9WwBQcCJoojsxds1Z%2FCtfZf2%2BikwNXYSG25CFDF%2FBtxqpk5yHRbdLQncdS27VYS3VZOV1tVkqV2cz%2Fs3xg8EeaUcxuwbAbMQkXdNCgOJ3u9IMFdbGJa6sDLELbUbcCjLmSZD7Q323zqEJCm7hkuECZq5CxKU861OJTtvCdT9N0ROCQiV3HiqO6zH0dP0gPETc%2FJrr3dYQiphie9Py13AA%2BU7P1m91SKw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8r8suTCZQ

UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay

Oh dear

ANOTHER £16Bn down the drain.

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

"I assume intelligent people working in councils."

Ah! - spotted the flaw in your argument.

Anyone who understands the computer industry knows that a move to Oracle in not necessarily a good move.

Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update

Another day......

.....another M$ screw-up!

Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU

Microsoft/Office 364½ sounds like a dream

"The company attributed its most recent cloud failures to a problematic code change. It has yet to explain why so much of Europe appears to be experiencing a slowdown or complete outage in the EAC.

The company says: "The Exchange admin center (EAC) is a modern, web-based management console for managing Exchange that's designed to provide an experience more in line with the overall Microsoft 365 admin experience."

Judging by recent outages across Microsoft 365, we'd say it has done a stellar job there."

ie: SNAFU - Situation Normal All FOULED Up - Microsoft "Normal".

Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time

HP deserves to die

No more great products.

Give us TOTAL CONTROL over your HP printer

Charge exhorbitant amounts for ink

etc

etc

Murena boss says customers about to wake up from its cloud storage nightmare

"Microsoft's AI less useful than expected"

No surprises, there. I tried using Microsoft Maps once; whole large buildings such as schools were apparently located about ½mile away from their actual location.

PATHETIC!

Why users still couldn't care less about Windows 11

Barrel

"I met the BARREL coming up!"

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Re: Oracle

"West Sussex County Council will be hoping its Oracle project achieves the savings it promises."

It won't.

£40million buys you a lot of in-house staff and (electronic) card indexes.

Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in

Actually....

...A new hospital would be useful.

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

What a lot of people don't realise is that.....

AI can also mean Asinine Ignorance as recently demonstrated by UK's very own Keir Starmer.

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff

Definitions of AI

Asinine Incompetence

Asinine Ignorance

With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record

Re: AI definition

Or even

Asinine Ignorance

AI definition

Asinine* Incompetence.

Asinine* - Google it if your English is inadequate.

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

And the "Chocolate Teapot Award" goes to..........

MICROCRAP!!!!!