Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it [Tue Jun 7 2022]

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Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond?

 
 

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AI-driven HR startup snapped up as companies fight to retain employees

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The Register talks to Microsoft's European cloud rivals about getting a fair deal

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We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to

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Musk repeats threat to end $46.5bn Twitter deal – with lawyers, not just tweets

Right as Texas AG sticks his oar in

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Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

Doom it is, then, Putin

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Synopsys, Juniper Networks fuse to tackle silicon photonics

The 'OpenLight' union aims for on-chip lasers with help from Intel's recent add, Tower Semiconductor

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Higher spec machines lift US PC revenues 40% even as shipments drop

Desktops, inflation and other factors also shaping American demand

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Compute responsibly: Yet another IT industry sustainability drive

From greener datacenters to data transparency and 'conscious code', IBM, Dell, others push for better IT ops

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Sony launches a space laser subsidiary (for comms, not conflict)

Plans to beam data to satellites, and between orbiting birds too

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Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond?

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Behind Big Tech's big privacy heist: Deliberate obfuscation

You opted out, but you didn't uncheck the box on page 24, so your data's ours...

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Datacenter switching surged in Q1, but it won't last forever

Supply and demand are in for a switcheroo, analyst tells El Reg

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Microsoft seizes 41 domains tied to 'Iranian phishing ring'

Windows giant gets court order to take over dot-coms and more

Cisco EVP: We need to lift everyone above the cybersecurity poverty line

It's going to become a human-rights issue, Jeetu Patel tells The Register

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Costa Rican government held up by ransomware … again

Also US warns of voting machine flaws and Google pays out $100 million to Illinois

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Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns after being added to EU sanctions list

Russia's top tech CEO accused of material support to Moscow

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Transport giant picks up Google Cloud AI to aid package delivery, tracking

When an exec asked for help tackling supply-chain woes, were they told to 'just Google it' or what?

Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

Four years later than planned – maybe that's how long it will take to make it secure?

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Multiplatform Linux kernel 'pretty much done' says Linus Torvalds

Debuts version 5.19rc1, which includes HPE's next-gen server ASIC and much more

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Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously

Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal

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Brute force and whiskey: The solution to all life's problems

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Japan lets its banks and other entities issue stablecoins

Wants private coins to have face value in Yen by 2023

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