Posts by Couldbe

See you in Hull: First UK city to be hooked up to full-fibre broadband

meh

I'd be more impressed if it were fibre to the home - fibre to the cabinet still means homes are saddled with the quality of the phoneline to the cabinet.

Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

From 2013 onwards they've removed a lot of document authoring features from the standalone that are only available via the subscription. Even though I need them to increase my productivity, I'd rather cut off a limb than pay them a subscription - which is essentially protection money.

After mopping up from an upgrade from win 7 to 10, I have decided I am going to live long enough to see microsoft either go kaput or be swallowed up by another company. Their behaviour over the last 5-10 years gives me hope it will be sooner rather than later...

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days before Black Friday, emails world+dog

I got one too and sent a screenshot to Amazon UKs twitter account twice and they just ignored me.

That's the problem with self regulation, it's hard to prove that amazon hasn't done the reporting assessment properly. At the moment it certainly looks like they're ignoring it and hoping we'll go away.