Posts by discalced

Better battery, LTE and a removable SSD in Microsoft's Surface Pro 7+

Re: Swappable SSD, but standard?

It'll be standard issue component but you'll be able to buy it from Microsoft as a Corporate customer as part of a support deal.

DXC Technology utters words 'hiring' and 'digital' 105 times in Q3 earnings car-crash

Re: Digital employees

"Digital" was the 2017 buzzword... Mike 'n' John Lawrie made the Buzzword Generation Team redundant.

Re: Buzzword Bingo Redundo

It's *starting* to wear a bit thin? I found it no better than sadly amusing two years before I got my redundancy. In my case "Workforce Reduction" was the only CSC/DXC bingo phrase that ever did me the slightest bit of good.

300,000 BT pensioners await Court of Appeal pension scheme ruling

Re: What's good for the goose...

My BT Section C pension is already in payment so I watch this with particular fascination.

IBM turns panto villain as The Reg tells readers: 'It's behind you!'

Re: "Reskill"

In DXC, it's called Workforce Refresh.

Four techies flummoxed for hours by flickering 'E' on monitor

Re: Minor correction 3270

IRMA cards... oh the luxury of being able to run a resizable 3270 terminal in Windows 3.11... and the same "if it's not working, plug the coax into one that is working, then plug it back into the one that wasn't" troubleshooting technique worked just fine... plus I had a lot more desk space for large piles of fanfold printer paper.

Scratch the Surface: Slabtop sales slump takes the shine off Microsoft's 2017 so far

Re: Old Tech

I'm still using my Surface Pro 3 in a docking station with a DELL touchscreen 1020p. Battery life is still good when I undock it... I can sign PDF forms with the pen thingy.

My better half has a Surface Pro 4... any upgrade of either will wait til they fail or the Surface Pro 5 is launched... not holding my breath on either, to be honest.