They're quite good at tweaking their offering so that your visual studio credits don't quite fit your monthly spend while the bean counters would rather die than top up your credits even though it's a fraction of the cost to host via the corporate account.
Posts by airbrush
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Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license
Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers
UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project
Re: How bloody much?
These systems are pretty huge, you'd be waiting a very very long time to do it from scratch. Totally agree they should standardise but it'll never happen, they can't even get a couple of police areas to merge and various governments have tried over the past 20 years. Local democracy needs a reboot.
Local councils struggle with ill-fitting software despite spending billions with suppliers
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Microsoft sends OneDrive URL upload feature to the cloud graveyard
Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages
Their acr service was degraded yesterday so had build timeouts all day, it's not surprising these instances occur but sure that's not what they say when selling it. Using Azure DevOps can be even more expensive when factoring in downtime and time consuming processes so you have to be very very careful
Largest local government body in Europe goes under amid Oracle disaster
Re: went cap in hand to the IMF
Not the first time a labour chancellor was mislead, in 70 they were given poor figures around the election which were subsequently upgraded to a huge surplus. Of course the conservatives then created a huge trade deficit; over heating economy from tax cuts, the oil crisis, striking miners and the scene was set for the remainder of the 70's from the resultant inflation.
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?
Re: "years of arguable underfunding2
The NHS budget is substantially less than our peers in France and Germany, if you include private spending ie NHS surgeons working overtime it's still substantially less. If you want to see how privatised systems work in this country take a look at social care, the NHS was pretty good a decade ago but we've not really had a government since then and either they don't care or are incapable but still the problems pile up!
Microsoft pushes users to the Edge in Outlook, Teams
It's how they turn you into the product..
Try and use a browser other than Chrome and edge on your phone that have a business model of tracking your every move and it is much harder, some things like authentication for your company portal only work with chrome. On the desktop some office links already won't open in Firefox although not common enough to deter. Needs more regulation.
Qualcomm faces fresh competition in world of Arm-based Windows PCs
Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit
Azure anywhere: Arc adds App Service, Function apps, Event Grid and more to on-premises Kubernetes
Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID
Under oath
If he exaggerated its going to be by omission, his testimony just confirmed that the current idiots in charge were a particularly nasty bunch of dysfunctional idiots. You'd be lying if you don't acknowledge that it explains the poor communication, uturns and crazy decisions over the past year. The problem is that despite all the proof he provided this will just be brushed under the carpet by their mates in the media.
European Commission redacts AstraZeneca vaccine contract – but forgets to wipe the bookmarks tab
And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data
Microsoft to rethink crash-prone Visual Studio extension model, shift towards cloud
Resharper
Things improved with Vs when much of the code analysis moving out of process so I rarely get out of memory errors these days however a move to 64bit is long overdue. Been waiting for resharper to move out of process for years, to be honest take away one or two features that improve the unit test experience no end and they're dead in the water, it's a bit scandalous that vs has such obvious gaps while costing so much.
Need next-gen connectivity but don't want to break the bank? Samsung's Galaxy A42 5G is a bin-raking £349
Xiaomi and Samsung go head to head with new phones in bargain-basement 5G battle
If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended
It's ok
My first experience of it is that it's quicker than the previous version, the bar at the bottom makes more sense. Every time familiar stuff changes people moan, personally I find it quite refreshing to see. Chrome is more bloated, like every redesign there's good, bad and stuff you'll get used to.
No surprise: Britain ditches central database model for virus contact-tracing apps in favour of Apple-Google API
In Hancock's half-hour, Dido Harding offers hollow laughs: Cake distracts test-and-trace boss at UK COVID-19 briefing
Brit council tosses Serco a £50m contract extension as coronavirus pandemic leaves in-sourcing plans in tatters
Re: Still in the Dark Ages
Bins, housing and libraries might not be the best examples of stuff that can be centralised! Take a look at the Worcestershire and Warwickshire police centralisation that was recently reversed by the vain prima donnas that want their own little fiefdoms. Local control is often more manageable than having someone up high trying to do everything as the recent coronovirus omnishambles has shown but yeah most councils have outsourced back office to the same old providers which is centralisation in a way.
You can get a mechanical keyboard for £45. But should you? We pulled an Aukey KM-G6 out of the bargain bin
Keyboard Layout Creator
Compact keyboards seem to have a fairly random idea of what keys to include, who needs a shortcut to your email program when it doesn't provide a forward slash for example! I only mention it as my cheap mechanical Zalman keyboard lacked quite a few useful keys, Microsoft provide a key mapper that actually creates a keyboard driver with the mappings you specify so far better than other solutions and is fairly easy to use, hopefully they'll continue to support it!
We could all do with a bit of empathy in our systems, says Mozilla as it ships Firefox 75 in the thick of global pandemic
'Up to 300' UK heads to roll at Brit IT services firm Allvotec, with 200 jobs offshored to Bulgaria in cost-cutting drive
Our 'solution is killing us in a number of areas' IBM said about doomed £175m Co-Op Insurance project
Doh!
Seems stupid of the coop to migrate their whole business to a new system instead of doing it in chunks with the complexity of insurance. However IBM sound like they've completely mismanaged the process, this is a specialist area and best undertaken by a specialist software company. Recently had a similar experience where our companies system was due to be replaced by one written by oracle, three years and millions later they decided to stay with the existing one after all.
FTC kicks feet through ash pile that once was Cambridge Analytica with belated verdict
Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in
Re: Jettisoning .NET and all but accepting the mistake it was
I think he means from back in the day when .Net originally came out it was effectively Microsoft's Java Runtime replacement after the lawsuit over their version. He's just saying it could have been written as cross platform from the start avoiding the rewrite although maybe they were worried about stepping on Java's litigious toes?