The Force is strong in this one

IBM is challenging the US Defence Department’s decision to turn to a single provider for its $10 billion department wide cloud computing infrastructure which has the Star Wars name JEDI.

Surface doing well

Microsoft broke into the top five list of PC vendors in the US for the first time, thanks to its line of Surface computers, laptops, and tablets.

Just as it did with Apple

Software king of the world Microsoft is helping the open saucy Linux by making shedloads of patents available to the movement to protect them from patent trolls.

Promises it will not eat your personal files

Microsoft is re-releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update today, following the company pulling it offline due to the fact it was eating users' personal files.

Unconditional nod

Software King of the Wolrd Microsoft will get unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $7.5 billion purchase of privately held coding website GitHub.

Bugs ate user files

Software King of the world Microsoft has had to pull and pause its October 10 release of Windows 10 after bugs within the software started munching users' files. 

Surface Laptop 2, Pro 6, Studio 2 and Surface Headphones as well

At its dedicated event in New York, Microsoft unveiled a couple of new Surface devices, including the Surface Laptop 2, Surface Pro 6, Surface Studio 2 AiO, and the Surface Headphones.

Cloudflare forms glorious Bandwidth alliance

Cloudflare has brought together Microsoft, IBM, Digital Ocean, Automattic and Backblaze under the Bandwidth Alliance.

More transparency

IBM is now offering a cloud-based service designed to detect bias in AI and bring transparency to how AI-powered systems make decisions.

How Vole quit worrying and learnt to love the penguin

Software King of the World Microsoft's flagship Azure product is mostly used in Linux boxes.