Industry blasts UK competition authority over Activision Blizzard decision
Watchdog might have been listening to the wrong side
Yesterday’s move by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to block the Activision Blizzard acquisition has been blasted by those it was meant to protect.
Vole gives up on mice
And keyboards and webcams
Software king of the world Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, keyboards, and webcams that are Microsoft-branded.
Microsoft’s cloud revenue up seven per cent
First quarter made $52.9 billion
Microsoft’s cloud arm reported first-quarter revenue of $52.9 billion, up seven per cent, and net income of $18.3 billion, up nine per cent.
Edge accidently leaks your data to Bing
Microsoft investigating
Software King of the World Microsoft is investigating claims that its Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website.
Microsoft suggest buying fewer PCs
The future is cloudy
Despite it earning its fortune on the back of supplying software for PCs, Microsoft does not think owning such hardware is a good idea anymore.
Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office
Avoiding an anti-trust probe
Microsoft will stop forcing customers of its popular Office software to also have its Teams video conferencing and messaging app automatically installed on their devices, in a move designed to prevent an official antitrust probe by EU regulators.
Big Tech lay-offs are already costing them
19th-century staff management approaches don’t work
Faced with falling margins after the Covid bubble burst, Big Tech let thousands of staff go on the assumption that they could rehire them when things got better at the end of the year, but they might have miscalculated, according an Intuit boss.
Cloud sales starting to slow
Analysts expecting the slowest growth for a decade
Demand for cloud-computing services is slowing and Microsoft and Amazon are expected to report the slowest revenue growth for their cloud-computing businesses since the firms started breaking out performance last decade.
Microsoft releases DirectStorage 1.2 SDK
Adds buffered IO mode to speed up HDD performance
Microsoft has released DirectStorage 1.2 SDK, enabling buffered IO mode that should offer better performance for slower storage media, such as HDDs.
Musk throws toys out of the pram after Microsoft quits Twitter
Either pay me lots of money or I will sue
Software King of the World, Microsoft seemed to unleash supreme twit Elon [look at me] Musk’s inner child when it decided it no longer wanted to have anything to do with Twitter.