Good I guess
It's a shame they never seem to buy the RIGHT software nor have trained in house support.
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When companies invest, they invest in software – report
ZX Spectrum, the 8-bit home computer that turned Europe on to PCs, is 40
Monday 25th April 2022 06:14 GMT 
Ah, back in the day
I had just graduated high school when the first home computers became profitable retail products and no longer hobby machines, but all I could do was covet them because I could never afford one.
So I would hang out in the computer stores and play with them until the clerks ran me out. I usually got to stay for a while, though, because I looked like a very interested customer... to other potential customers. :)
If I was only able to afford one, I wonder where I would be today. I was not able to afford my first PC until 1989 and had to learn everything on my own or with the few friends who also had PCs. No books at the library, could not afford the books at the shops, and certainly no Internet.
So I miss those those pioneer consumer PCs, albeit for different reasons than most people. They might have been my early ticket out of decades of poverty.
Brave, DuckDuckGo to unplug Google's AMP where possible
Intel ships mystery quantum hardware to national lab
Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage actually did
South Korea's homegrown web giant Naver plans global growth push
Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market
Ex IT chief at Homeland Security watchdog stole US govt software to pirate
Chromebook sales train derails as market reaches saturation
Rivals aren't convinced by Microsoft's one-click default browser change
IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims
Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm
FTC sues Intuit for false advertising, says 'free' TurboTax isn't always free
Friday 1st April 2022 03:53 GMT
Re: Classic bait and switch
Yeah, no. It's outright fraud by Intuit.
I've come across several on-line free filing places over the years that pulled this crap. Some years I've had to file three times because the first two were fraudulent companies who did this, so I cancelled and went to the next one.
Friday 1st April 2022 03:50 GMT
Re: So true
If you cannot figure out basic income tax filings you should not be allowed outside without a guardian.
The free filing being offered is THE LAW for personal income by persons making less than 73K per year and filing simple deductions. And it's actually pretty simple to figure out the deductions.
If you need more than that and you are still trying use the free filing, you are either trying to commit fraud or willfully ignorant.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-free-file-can-make-tax-season-easier-on-people-filing-for-the-first-time
Yale finance director stole $40m in computers to resell on the sly
Celonis buys German process miner with Power BI links in $100m deal
Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice
GNOME 42's inconsistent themes are causing drama
China's top tech city Shenzhen locks down completely for at least a week
Russia labels Meta an 'extremist' organization, bans Instagram
Afraid of the big bad Linux desktop? Zorin 16.1 is here
114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call
One person's war is another hemisphere's developer crunch
Uncle Sam has a datacenter waste problem
Only 29% of techies truly want to stay in current job
Why Nvidia sees a future in software and services: Recurring revenue
Leaked stolen Nvidia key can sign Windows malware
Deere & Co won't give out software and data needed for repairs, watchdog told
IT blamed after HR forgets to install sockets in new office
DBAs massively over-provision Oracle to protect themselves: Microsoft
Monday 7th March 2022 15:48 GMT
Re: "But in the cloud – including Azure, natch – users can instead scale only when needed"
This.
"On-demand flexible provisioning" also means surprise and often inaccurate, exorbitant bills.
Something that is true in almost all industries and market. Big companies NEVER miss a chance to over-bill.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
