Re: Wouldn't it be cheaper....
Or would that be too easy.
The problem is that you'd really want to be offering market salary rates - something the public sector isn't good at.
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North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal
'Best tech employer of the year' threatened trainee with £15k penalty fee for quitting to look after his sick mum
Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password
China's Chang'e 5 probe lands Moon rocks in Inner Mongolia
Top tip from the original Task Manager taskmaster: Don't put your phone number on that debug message box
Cisco challenges the tyranny of Outlook with short, self-terminating Webex meetings
Wednesday 9th December 2020 08:12 GMT 
Cisco's Prices
My place is a big Cisco user (various software and hardware products) but once MS-Teams entered the room the Cisco account team realised that they were about to loose the entire collaboration space to Microsoft. The problem, for Cisco, is cost. Microsoft bundle Teams as part of your standard Office 365 package and it's tough to compete with free* - doubly so when you charge Cisco's sky high prices. (I was seeing others already drifting away from Cisco prior to Teams due to Cisco's sky high prices)
I got an NDA heads-up about the Webex Desk Pro months prior to its launch and at the time questioned the price point but Cisco were adamant it would sell.
Cisco want to be the Apple of the corporate world - but they're just not pulling it off.
* Yes I know there's no such thing as a free lunch and we're ultimately paying for it.
Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user's mailbox, founder says 'this is absurd'
Uber sends its self-driving cars on a road to nowhere, with indefinite stop at automated truck aspirant Aurora
Wireless screen in estate agent window just begging for someone to fill it with mischief
Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360
Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Arm at 30: From Cambridge to the world, one plucky British startup changed everything
European Space Agency will launch giant claw that drags space junk to its doom
NASA building network cables that can survive supersonic flight - could this finally deliver unbreakable RJ45 latching tabs?
NEC to sell the accelerator cards it puts into supercomputers – for about $11,000 a pop
Bloated middle age beckons: Windows 1.0 turns 35 and is dealing with its mid-life crisis, just about
EU says Boeing 737 Max won't fly over the Continent just yet: The US can make its own choices over pilot training
UK Court of Appeal rebukes Home Office for exceeding its powers with bunkum 'national security' GSM gateway ban
Microsoft warns against SMS, voice calls for multi-factor authentication: Try something that can't be SIM swapped
Election security fears doused with reality: Top officials say Nov 3 'was the most secure in American history.' The end
Friday 13th November 2020 08:05 GMT
Maths is cool
Matt Parker has debunked one of the allegations about voter fraud:
Halt don't catch fire: Amazon recalls hundreds of thousands of Ring doorbells over exploding battery fears
Test tube babies: Virgin Hyperloop pops pair of staffers in a pod, shoots them along 500m vacuum tunnel
Monday 9th November 2020 19:27 GMT
Re: Logistical Challenges
In the UK, the new Crossrail trains are around 200m in length which can accommodate 1,500 passengers (With provision to extend to 240m). One of the reasons for that is that longer trains are more efficient than shorter trains. On urban/metro type services, the length of time to bring a train to a stop, allow passengers on & off and get back up to speed again is the limiting factor for the frequency of trains.
H2? Oh! New water-splitting technique pushes progress of green hydrogen
Machine learning gets semi conscious... Waymo, Daimler vow to bring self-driving trucks to American highways
Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks
Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined
Hey Reg readers, Happy Spreadsheet day! Because there ain't no party like an Excel party
Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods
Friday 9th October 2020 10:34 GMT
Of course all the vendors want "as a service" It keeps the money coming in when the end user would rather just stick with the five year old (or older) version of the software they were previously running. As to hardware, the pace of change/improvement has slowed over the past decade so there is less drive to upgrade. I've seen people running 10 year old network switches as they're "good enough". (Sure, there might be some security issues, but with a bit of skill you can block that off and the switch keeps running)
Britain should have binned Huawei 5G kit years ago to cuddle up with Trump, says Parliamentary committee
UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?
Thursday 8th October 2020 07:26 GMT 
information they had obtained from an academic at Cambridge University, Dr Aleksandr Kogan
I hope El Reg have run that statement past their lawyers. Was Dr Kogan employed by the University for a period of time? Yes. Did he (or anyone else at the University) either collect or use that data? No.
The impression given by that sentence is that the University was involved in the collection or use of that data.
www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/04/13/dont-blame-cambridge-for-facebooks-privacy-crisis/
Nominet refuses to consider complaint about its own behaviour, claims CEO didn’t mean what he said on camera
Hasta la vista, Ola: TfL bans ridesharing startup, claiming unlicensed drivers picked up passengers
Microsoft says bug, sorry, 'a latent defect' in Safe Deployment Process system downed Azure Active Directory
Friday 2nd October 2020 21:42 GMT 
Outage Notifications
What's more, it has a plan to prime its automated communications pipeline to get outage information to customers within 15 minutes, so they spend less time in the dark
I've lost count of the number of times we've logged support calls with Microsoft and being told there are no service problems to suddenly seeing an announcement saying the issue (that we were having) has been resolved.
Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last
Thursday 1st October 2020 07:15 GMT
Re: Welcome to Windows Phone all over again....
Can we move on from the playground "My CPU/OS/Application is better than yours". The joke's past it.
If you bother to look at MS' recent business decisions, products are moving to be online services. The only thing that MS then cares about is the browser. Guess which product MS are getting to run on multiple devices.
Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
Monday 28th September 2020 07:05 GMT
Windows' Future
For a long time the Windows O/S hasn't been a money spinnner per-say. It's always been things like Office & Exchange. (OEMs were never paying anywhere near full price for their bundled copies of Windows)
With Windows 10 now getting updates/upgrade for free, it does make you wonder what Microsoft's long term plans are for Windows. I feel the obvious answer is that they're interested in the subscription services (e.g. Office 365) over perpetual licenses. There were reports several years ago that MS was pushing its resellers to sell subscription Office 365 over perpetual licenses.
When Microsoft employees turn up at my office with Macbooks & iPhones (soemthing BIll & Steve would never have allowed) it only confirms my suspicions that MS see their future as on-line only. So the thought that Windows may fade into the distance isn't totally radical.
And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time
Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'
GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again
Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients
Monday 21st September 2020 07:07 GMT
I think the author is giving VMWare too much credit. VMware were late to market with a web interface (Flash) and when they did release it they'd based it on obsolete technology.
The Flash interface was VMWare's first web interface. Prior to that we had to use the Win32 client. And for a long while the Flash client still couldn't do everything. For once thing it was vCentre only. You still had to use the Windows client to manage individual hosts. Also VMWare tech support often told you to perform tasks with the Windows client rather than their Flash web UI.
But even whilst VMWare were working on the Flash interface the writting was already on the wall for Flash so they were working on a deadend product.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
